need help with new web epg grabber (2 Viewers)

[Juppe]

Hi.

I have a problem with a WebEPG grabber I'm trying to do.
The problem is that the site returns a json-file and I cant get my head around how to parse that file.
As I understand WebEPG supoorts json-file, but I dont know how to do that.

The url to one of the channels are:

https://kolla.tv/api/channels/listWithPrograms?dat=[YYYY]-[MM]-[DD]&page=0&limit=12&day=0&active=true&channelFriendlyUrl=[ID]

The dat argument looks like "2023-07-06" and the channelFriendlyUrl is "svt1-hd".
So just replace [YYYY]-[MM]-[DD] with 2023-07-06 and [ID] with svt1-hd

The parts that I like to get is:
content/channels/programs/name
content/channels/programs/formattedStartTime
content/channels/programs/formattedEndTime
content/channels/programs/description
and maybe
content/channels/programs/episodeNumber

Hope someone have the time and the knowledge to help me with this.

/Juppe

 

[vuego]

Thanks Juppe for digging into this. We could have good use for a new Swedish grabber now that Dagenstv is no longer working.

Here's my attempt on creating a JSON grabber however it doesn't work. My guess is that xpath and the jsonname for Fields needs some tweaking but I don't know how to.

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[doskabouter]

I think this is a reasonable start?
Not sure how programs are going to work out if they start before midnight and end after, as webepg currently isn't able to parse unix-timestaps and I had to fallback to formatted start and end times...

Edit: wow, helpful people here. @vuego : you were close!

 

[Juppe]

Thanks, looks like it works.
Will test more tomorrow.

 

[doskabouter]

if you fill out the other channels and post it here I can make sure it's going to be in the upcoming release of MediaPortal

 

[vuego]

Hey, I can confirm that programs spaning over midnight does work and will get the correct start and end date and time using @doskabouter's grabber.

However dat=[YYYY]-[MM]-[DD] does not work. It will always return today's tv shows even if you use any other date. Browsing the web page I can see that they instead use:
day=0&week=1 to day=6&week=1 and
day=0&week=2 to day=6&week=2

which means that we could get 14 days of data if WebEPG supports days and weeks?
Should we try [DAY_OFFSET]? And how about "week offset"?

 

[vuego]

Here's an updated grabber modified from doskabouter's file. I've change "dat" to "day". Still need to figure out how to grab the next week. And added all channels however I haven't changed the display names so it will appear like the channelFriendlyUrl in WebEPG. I will have to try this out for a couple of days and perhaps change some channel names since Kolla.tv seems to use some old channel names still.

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[vuego]

Changed:
bbc-brit to bbc-nordic
vh1 to mtv-00s
vh1-classic to mtv-80s
paramount-plus-series to skyshowtime-1
paramount-plus-movies to skyshowtime-2
v-hockey to v-sport-vinter

I've currently set available days to 7. There's data for 14 days but then we need a way to grab the second week using URL week=2 instead of week=1. I'm not sure how to achieve that.

This grabber seems very good. It's much faster than Dagenstv and with the updated channel names even better than kolla.tv itself

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[Juppe]

I've tested with the url and 12 days and it seems like it works.

 

[Juppe]

@vuego thanks for the file, it works great.
I've added C MORE LIVE- channels in this file.
They are not sending all the time, but when they are, there are programs from kolla.tv