tvgrabpyAPI

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Sometime after October 1st 2017 TheTVDB API V1 will stop working.

At present we are working on support for the API V2. A beta release is expected soon.

New version 1.0.7 release based on DataTreeGrab module v1.4.0

17-05-2017 (dtg 1.3.3) With a significant speed increase of in my use case 30% (from 68 minutes to 48 minutes)
10-07-2017 (dtg 1.4.0) With now an even larger speed increase of in my use case 65% to 23.5 minutes (1.72 sec/page)

Summary

tv_grab_py_API is an API for creating xmltv compatible tv grabbers. It is the succesor of tv_grab_nl_py version 2.2 making all of its functionallity available to the rest of the world.

Requirements

• Python 2.7.9 or higher (currently not python 3.x)
• The pytz module
• The requests module
• The DataTreeGrab module
• Connection with the Internet

Installation

• Especially under Windows, make sure Python 2.7.9 or higher is installed
• Make sure the above mentioned Python 2 packages are installed on your system
• Download the latest release and unpack it into a directory
• Run:

  • under Linux: sudo ./setup.py install from that directory

  • under Windows depending on how you installed Python:

    • setup.py install from that directory
    • Or: Python setup.py install from that directory

    (the frontend script(s) will install into C:\Program Files\Python27\Scripts)

• Run the frontend (presently only tv_grab_nl3.py) with --configure
• Check the created configuration file ~/.xmltv/tv_grab_nl3.conf and activate the desired channels.

Some features

• No need for anybody who wants to create a grabber to know much about Python. You mainly must write one or more json data_defs defining one or more sources. These are DataTreeGrab data_defs with some specific extensions.

• All retrieved data is stored in an sqlite database which:

• speeds up data retrieval

• makes it possible to repeatetly access the data again while off-line

• Extensive list of user-settable options to give a user maximum oportunity to adapt the program to his or her need.

• User setable genre translation tables with developer settable defaults.

• Multiple language support (currently English and Dutch).

• data_def updates are automatic.

• theTVDB.com lookup.