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

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Paul,

Friday, April 27, 2018, 3:33:12 PM, you wrote:

> On 25/04/2018 17:59, Greg Oliver wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 8:30 AM, Paul Gardiner <lists at glidos.net 
>>     On 25/04/2018 09:22, Greg Oliver wrote:
>>         On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 3:07 AM, Paul Gardiner <lists at glidos.net
>>              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.
>> 
>>     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?​

> Actually, there is a warning when I run ttvdb.py: I see

>   "InsecureRequestWarning: Unverified HTTPS request is being made. 
> Adding certificate verification is strongly advised. See: 
> https://urllib3.readthedocs.io/en/latest/security.html"

> I still get what looks like correct metadata. I also notice that the 
> banner urls returned within the xml, although http, redirect to https.
> I'm not sure how that would lead to Mythfrontend failing to download 
> them, but I guess it could be connected.

> Cheers,
>         Paul.
> _______________________________________________

Maybe you should look at updating your systems list of https
authorities. Some browsers have their own, but python uses the ones
supplied by your system.

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