[mythtv-users] Important: Changes to Metadata lookup in March 2021

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Hika,

Thursday, February 25, 2021, 12:44:46 AM, you wrote:

> Hoi Peter,

> Wednesday, February 24, 2021, 7:08:16 PM, you wrote:

>> Test it by running these

>> Display help page
>> /usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Television/tmdb3tv.py -h

>> Display series data xml
>> /usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Television/tmdb3tv.py -l en -a US -M Monk

>> Display episode data xml
>> /usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Television/tmdb3tv.py -l en -a US -N 1695 
>> "Mr. Monk and the Psychic"

>> Display episode data xml
>> /usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Television/tmdb3tv.py -l en -a US -N Monk 
>> "Mr. Monk and the Psychic"

>> Run the same tests for tvmaze.py

>> Let me know if this works.

>> Note: You need to install them on all frontends and backend.

>> Peter

> OK, for tvmaze.py

> First to use it on older mythtv versions with python 2.7 change the first line of  tvmaze.py to:
>     
> #!/usr/bin/env python2

> I was missing the following python libraries:
>     
> https://pypi.org/project/requests-cache/
> https://pypi.org/project/python-dateutil/1.4/

> bug line 504:
>     
>         if not os.path.exists(cachedir):
> -            os.makedirs(cachepath)
> +            os.makedirs(cachedir)
>         if sys.version_info[0] == 2:

> /usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Television/tmdb3tv.py -l en -a US -N 1695 "Mr. Monk and the Psychic"
> gave:
> `ERROR: <type 'exceptions.Exception'> : Cannot find episodes for inetref '1695'.`

> The rest gave proper output.

> Tot mails,
>   Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com

I later realized that the error was because the inetref was for
tmdb3tv.
So substituting 1695 with 543 gave proper output.



Tot mails,
  Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com

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