Update to Mythnetvision twit.tv script by Auric

[William L. DeRieux IV <williamderieux@…>]

The twit.tv site had undergone some significant changes to its layout and as a result the current twit.tv.pl script fails to find any videos.

The included update will scrape there rss feed page: ​http://wiki.twit.tv/wiki/TWiT_Show_Feeds

It will only download videos for currenty active shows.

For each rss feed you have a choice of the following: Video-LO / Video-Hi / Video-HD.

The script is hard-coded for Video-Hi, but it could be refined by changing: my $video_size = $video_large; to either: my $video_size = $video_small my $video_size = $video_hd

This update provides the following features: 1) Videos can be successfully added to the UI 2) Low impact on the twit.tv server 3) Extremely fast:

• We only make at most 1 call to generate links to the rss feeds.
• We only make 1 call for each RSS feed (currently that is 25 rss feeds)
• the original script would make at least 600 calls or more per show

I will try to include the updated script with this ticket (the attached version will be a cleaned up version of the one I am linking to) but if that does not work you can review the changes here: ​https://github.com/neoh4x0r/mythtv/commit/244514f7fe65d2e824a46daf9568bc72d94a3d32

[William L. DeRieux IV <williamderieux@…>]

Updated version of twit.tv.pl script for mythnetvision (clean version)

[William L. DeRieux IV <william@…>]

In 56769ba842219e9c689b665ae7b3c6c74201dc01/mythtv:

Error: Processor CommitTicketReference failed

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[Karl Egly]

Committed after really light testing.

The returned XML has some room for improvement though.

<item>
  <title>2015/08/03 [EP#211] - Mark Johnson is the CEO and co-founder at Descartes Labs. He has a track record of translating complex technologies into usable and successful products. Recently he was the CEO of Zite which he sold twice. First time was to CNN and the second time was to Flipboard. Mark was also a product manager who trained at SAP followed by a string of successful search startups. Download or subscribe to this show at twit.tv/tri. Thanks to Cachefly for the bandwidth for this show.</title>
  <mythtv:subtitle></mythtv:subtitle>
  <author>leo@twit.tv (Leo Laporte)</author>
  <pubDate>2015/08/03</pubDate>
  <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://twit.cachefly.net/coverart/tri/tri144videohi.jpg&quot; align=&quot;right&quot; hspace=&quot;20&quot; vspace=&quot;20&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; title=&quot;Triangulation&quot; alt=&quot;Triangulation&quot;/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Mark Johnson is the CEO and co-founder at Descartes Labs. He has a track record of translating complex technologies into usable and successful products. Recently he was the CEO of Zite which he sold twice. First time was to CNN and the second time was to Flipboard. Mark was also a product manager who trained at SAP followed by a string of successful search startups.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Download or subscribe to this show at &lt;a href=&quot;http://twit.tv/tri&quot;&gt;twit.tv/tri&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Thanks to &lt;a href=&quot;http://cachefly.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Cachefly&lt;/a&gt; for the bandwidth for this show.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
  <link>http://twit.tv/tri/211</link>
  <player></player>
  <playerargs></playerargs>
  <download></download>
  <downloadargs></downloadargs>
  <media:group>
    <media:thumbnail url="http://twit.cachefly.net/coverart/tri/tri144videohi.jpg"/>
    <media:content url="http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp4/twit.cachefly.net/video/tri/tri0211/tri0211_h264m_864x480_500.mp4" length="" duration="1:04:05" width="864" height="480" lang="eng"/>
  </media:group>
  <rating></rating>
  <mythtv:country>usa</mythtv:country>
  <mythtv:season></mythtv:season>
  <mythtv:episode>211</mythtv:episode>
  <mythtv:customhtml>no</mythtv:customhtml>
</item>

Resetting some values to defaults while here.

[William L. DeRieux IV <william@…>]

In a62fc0da9e9d8152a5b83cb6e8898faf67d6cbab/mythtv:

Error: Processor CommitTicketReference failed

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[churufrijo@…]

Instead of scraping a wiki page, you should take the list of feeds from TWiT's feeds OPML file: ​http://feeds.twit.tv/twitfeeds.opml

Much more reliable!