<div dir="auto"><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Mar 1, 2021, 4:25 PM David Hampton via mythtv-users, <<a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Mon, 2021-03-01 at 19:07 +0000, Gary Buhrmaster wrote:<br>
> On Sun, Feb 28, 2021 at 8:06 AM Ian Evans <<a href="mailto:dheianevans@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">dheianevans@gmail.com</a>><br>
> wrote:<br>
> <br>
> > Just curious though if there's any consideration of allowing Mythtv<br>
> > users to use the paid API in the future, much in the way that we<br>
> > can use Schedules Direct or EIT.<br>
> <br>
> As I recall, the existing code uses an API<br>
> key that I think was created (at TheTVDB)<br>
> for MythTV and is hardcoded in the<br>
> existing script.<br>
> <br>
> So, if someone was so motivated, it<br>
> should be possible to utilize a subscriber<br>
> specific login (either using the brute force<br>
> approach of replacing the key with your<br>
> own in the appropriate file(s)), or ideally<br>
> adding in some code to optionally check<br>
> for and use the appropriate authentication<br>
> from a file in CONFDIR (just like certain<br>
> other api keys/tokens are looked for there).<br>
> <br>
> If this is an itch someone wishes to scratch<br>
> they would hopefully contribute back to<br>
> the project after they completed it. I have<br>
> not looked at the code myself for eons,<br>
> but suspect this would be easy enough to<br>
> be tagged with a "good first issue" for a<br>
> new contributor (of course, I admit that<br>
> sometimes what seems like it would be<br>
> easy turns into a quagmire due to other<br>
> issues).<br>
<br>
Looking at the API, it appears to require both a MythTV project<br>
specific key and a user's PIN to login. It appears that there will be<br>
some validation by TheTVDB before a project specific key will be<br>
issued. I'll update when I know a more.<br>
<br><br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Thanks David. </div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
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