[mythtv-users] Frequent failures in attempting to download art from thetvdb

[Greg Oliver]

On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 8:30 AM, Paul Gardiner <lists at glidos.net> wrote:

> On 25/04/2018 09:22, Greg Oliver wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 3:07 AM, Paul Gardiner <lists at glidos.net <mailto:
>> lists at glidos.net>> wrote:
>>
>>     On 23/04/2018 19:00, Paul Gardiner wrote:
>>
>>         Hi,
>>         I'm noticing more and more often now I cannot download coverart,
>>         banners etc from thetvdb. If I try to manually, a list of
>>         possible banners is displayed with urls, but blank space where
>>         the image should be. In the logs I see "Tried to write <url>,
>>         but it appears to be an HTML redirect or corrupt file (filesize
>>         0). The urls work in a browser. There seems to be a long-ago
>>         fixed bug related to this with themoviedb.
>>
>>         I'm using v0.28.2
>>
>>         Is anyone else seeing this problem?
>>
>>
>>     Can anyone using 0.28.2 report ttvdb artwork download working for
>>     them? At least then I know to look somewhere outside mythtv.
>>
>>
>>     Cheers,
>>              Paul.
>>
>>
>>
>> ​https://lists.gt.net/mythtv/users/616983​
>>
>
>
> Yeah, I know of that discussion: I was part of it. Back a few weeks, a few
> of us didn't have ttvdb.py working at all. Now it is mostly working. It's
> just the downloading of artwork that fails. The download failure was
> happening a lot before I upgraded to 0.28.2, in any case.
>

​Ahhh, sorry - I should have looked closer to the recipients of that
thread!  When you run the commands from the command line as in the other
thread, what does it say?​
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