Mailing List Archive: Optional subscription to thetvdb? (was Important: Changes to Metadata lookup in March 2021)

Optional subscription to thetvdb? (was Important: Changes to Metadata lookup in March 2021)

Feb 28, 2021, 12:04 AM

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I split this off from the original thread as it's less of a technical
question and more about wish list.

First off, thanks for the developers for quickly getting this change ready
for March and to the users who have found workarounds for older versions.

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. I record a lot of retro programming like Johnny
Carson's Tonight Show and neither themoviedb nor tvmaze have the depth of
info that thetvdb does. For example, tvmaze only has show info for about 10
years and themoviedb has the episodes going back to the beginning, but each
episode is just a blank template asking for guest information.

It's an 11.99 API fee. I wouldn't mind if there was an option to use it.

Re: Optional subscription to thetvdb? (was Important: Changes to Metadata lookup in March 2021) [ In reply to ]

gary.buhrmaster at gmail

Mar 1, 2021, 11:07 AM

Post #2 of 5 (365 views)

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On Sun, Feb 28, 2021 at 8:06 AM Ian Evans <dheianevans@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).
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Re: Optional subscription to thetvdb? (was Important: Changes to Metadata lookup in March 2021) [ In reply to ]

mythtv-users at mythtv

Mar 1, 2021, 1:24 PM

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On Mon, 2021-03-01 at 19:07 +0000, Gary Buhrmaster wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 28, 2021 at 8:06 AM Ian Evans <dheianevans@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.

David

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Re: Optional subscription to thetvdb? (was Important: Changes to Metadata lookup in March 2021) [ In reply to ]

dheianevans at gmail

Mar 1, 2021, 1:26 PM

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On Mon, Mar 1, 2021, 2:10 PM Gary Buhrmaster, <gary.buhrmaster@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 28, 2021 at 8:06 AM Ian Evans <dheianevans@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).
>

That's good to know. I wish I could code. Should have learned at the start
of the pandemic!

>

Re: Optional subscription to thetvdb? (was Important: Changes to Metadata lookup in March 2021) [ In reply to ]

dheianevans at gmail

Mar 1, 2021, 1:27 PM

Post #5 of 5 (365 views)

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On Mon, Mar 1, 2021, 4:25 PM David Hampton via mythtv-users, <
mythtv-users@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@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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