Scraper Issues

[evan_almighty]

Hi Everyone,

Just tried xbmc4xbox tonight (3.3.1), first time this week and am having scraper issues.
During the start up scan, I get the following in a window in the middle of the screen: -

Could not download information
Server is most likely unavailable.
Would you like to continue scanning?
Yes No

I know the xbox has network connectivity as I'm getting the RSS feed and can ping it
fine.
Does anyone else have this issue.
N.B. I've not changed from the default scraper.

Thanks

[tmaynor]

Hi Everyone,

Just tried xbmc4xbox tonight (3.3.1), first time this week and am having scraper issues.
During the start up scan, I get the following in a window in the middle of the screen: -

Could not download information
Server is most likely unavailable.
Would you like to continue scanning?
Yes No

I know the xbox has network connectivity as I'm getting the RSS feed and can ping it
fine.
Does anyone else have this issue.
N.B. I've not changed from the default scraper.

Thanks

I am having this same problem

[Xphazer]

Sadly with no debug log we are just taking, nothing will be solved.
http://www.xbmc4xbox.org.uk/forum/viewt ... p?f=6&t=65

[Maza]

If your using tmdb you could be having issues, because they shutdown their 2.1 API for good https://www.facebook.com/themoviedb/pos ... 5523127035. This means the API needs to be updated to v3, the coming weekend I'll be pretty busy but after the weekend I'll be looking into this.

[Redneck9]

Movie thumbs and fanart no longer scrape. It will only fetch movie info(Noticed problem 2-3 days ago)

[tmaynor]

Movie thumbs and fanart no longer scrape. It will only fetch movie info(Noticed problem 2-3 days ago)

Anyone have a fix for this?

[shady7]

I second that I have been using the movie database but it comes up with Server is most likely unavailable. So I tried using IMDB comes up with movie info but no movie thumbs. Will put up debug log if needed. Cheers

[Pablouchka]

Waiting for a fix too

[spinnersp]

If your using tmdb you could be having issues, because they shutdown their 2.1 API for good https://www.facebook.com/themoviedb/pos ... 5523127035. This means the API needs to be updated to v3, the coming weekend I'll be pretty busy but after the weekend I'll be looking into this.

Seems that xml is no longer supported with v3,only supporting json.

[toocko]

So How can this be fixed? Not sure what yous mean by json. Thanks

[Xzawier1777]

Issues are the same over here in Belgium !! I'm sure somebody's gonna fix this...

[odellkevin]

Looks like I picked a hell of a time to add about 40 movies to my library. Oh well, I guess it's little blue folders for me.

[spinnersp]

So How can this be fixed? Not sure what yous mean by json. Thanks

Not sure if it can be fixed. Json is basically a programming language.Far as I can tell, mainline XBMC is compatible with json,but,unfortunately not XBMC4XBOX is not.

[Maza]

I've looked into this and yes XBMC4XBOX is not compatible with Json. So I don't know how to fix this, but I'm sure someone will come along with a solution.

[Dan Dar3]

You're confusing the JSON format with the XBMC JSON RPC interface.

Scrapers in XBMC/XBMC4Xbox use regular expression to parse the response, so it's almost irrelevant whether that is plain text, JSON, HTML or XML format - as long as you craft the right RegExp it will be able to read it.

I'll have a look as well later / weekend see if we can fix it - if someone could meanwhile create a Redmine bug ticket (see Development tab) so it can be tracked.

@spinnersp
That's useful information - with the API change they've changed the URLs the scraper makes the calls to and removed the old ones.

[Maza]

I created a Redmine ticket.

[Xzawier1777]

Hello, I don't know if this will help out,but XBMC is installed on my OUYA console and the TVDB sraper works just fine.
Now I'm heading to get the needed files and bring them to any developper.

Edit: I can't find the TVDB scraper files, but I've found the ImDB scraper ones, here: http://ul.to/v0pv4tm2

[Dan Dar3]

@Everyone
You can watch the ticket Maza created here:
http://redmine.exotica.org.uk/issues/254

[roboamiga]

Just noticed this issue the other day
I take it that it may be a while before moviedb scraper gets fixed so does anyone know any good workarounds?

[toocko]

A work around is to search for DVD art at IMDB other other site and copy and save jpeg to lets say desktop. Then ftp jpeg file to same folder that your movie is in.Next change file extension to .tbn instead of .jpg and it will load DVD image into XBMC.Note the file has to be named exactly as the movie to work. It is a longer process than using scraper and you don't have synopsis of movie that is why I would prefer using scraper.