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

[Paul Gardiner]

On 27/04/2018 22:30, Hika van den Hoven wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 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.

I installed python-certifi and that got rid of the warning from ttvdb.py 
that I mentioned above, but still the downloading from the artwork urls 
fails. I think it may be mythfrontend that is responsible for 
downloading the artwork. I think it does that directly, rather than via 
ttvdb.

Cheers,
	Paul.