[mythtv-users] Optional subscription to thetvdb? (was Important: Changes to Metadata lookup in March 2021)

[Ian Evans]

On Mon, Mar 1, 2021, 4:25 PM David Hampton via mythtv-users, <
mythtv-users at mythtv.org> wrote:

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

>
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