[mythtv-users] [xmltv-users] tv_grab_nl not outputting categories

[leo weppelman]

On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 9:59 PM, Jan Ceuleers <jan.ceuleers at computer.org> wrote:
>
> On 27/12/10 15:16, I wrote:
>>
>> Some time recent, tv_grab_nl stopped outputting Category labels,
>> although its source website, tvgids.nl, does show "Genre" labels.
>>
>> Full disclosure: I first noticed this while using tv_grab_nl_py, but in
>> an effort to resolve this problem I then tried my distro's tv_grab_nl
>> (which is 0.5.56) and then the current release tarball (0.5.59). Same
>> problem.
>>
>> So to be clear, the grabber does generate channel sections followed by
>> programme sections, but these in turn contain only title and url
>> sections, no category sections.
>>
>> Has anyone else noticed this?
>
> I have since opened a bug report about this:
>
> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=424135&aid=3146904&group_id=39046
>
> No reaction so far.
>
> The problem is due to the source website (tvgids.nl) changing the format of the pages that contain detailed programme descriptions. So the grabber yields a limited amount of metadata (title, time, duration), but fails to get detailed metadata (such as category, description, etc).
>
> Can I ask what other Belgian and Dutch XMLTV (e.g. MythTV) users do to get their metadata?

I am running a patch on tv_grab_nl_py-r104. There are some floating on
the mailing lists on the site
(http://code.google.com/p/tvgrabnlpy/wiki). I applied
http://pwdebruin.net/pipermail/tv_grab_nl_py_pwdebruin.net/attachments/20101230/02ffa8c6/attachment.txt.

There is no new official version of the grabber yet, But the diff
above works for me.

Leo.