(Solved) Merge xmltv with EPG URL

Hi, 

I´m struggling with this now and can´t get it to work... I have one local xml-file and I have an url with xml that I want to combine. 

I have tried this: 

subpage.format {list|/share/CACHEDEV1_DATA/.qpkg/xmltv/conf/tv_grab_file.xml|http://ace-tv.xyz:25461/xmltv.php?username=xxxxxx&password=xxxxxxxx} 

url_index{url||subpage|}

Result: 

Unhandled Exception

Index was outside the bounds of the array.

  at WGconsole.Program.ConsoleApplication (System.String[] args) [0x01cfa] in <274ad6f9740e441a95b86a1d1148edca>:0

  at WGconsole.Program.Main (System.String[] args) [0x00016] in <274ad6f9740e441a95b86a1d1148edca>:0

Then I try this:

subpage.format {list|/file://share/CACHEDEV1_DATA/.qpkg/xmltv/conf/tv_grab_file.xmltv|http://ace-tv.xyz:xxxxx/xmltv.php?username=xxxxxx&password=xxxxxxxx}  

url_index{url||subpage|}

I got this result

file file://share/CACHEDEV1_DATA/.qpkg/xmltv/conf/tv_grab_file.xmltv doesn't exist

I´m getting crazy soon... Please help!

/Niklas

I have tried that to, then the result is: 

update requested for - 1 - out of - 1 - channels for 16 day(s)

(   1/1   ) MERGE-XMLTV -- chan. (xmltv_id=dummy) -- mode Force

i

file file://http://ace-tv.xyz:25461/xmltv.php?username=xxxxxxxxxx&password=xxxxxxxxxx doesn't exist

Ok, thx.

This downloaded xml-files looks a little bit different from my Webgrab files, there is no spaces between ></channel><channel id=

Should webgrab be able to read the information in this file for combining: 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?><!DOCTYPE tv SYSTEM "xmltv.dtd"><tv generator-info-name="IPTV" generator-info-url="http://ace-tv.xyz:25461/"><channel id="CAPITAL TV"><display-name>UK: CAPITAL TV</display-name><icon src="http://webgrabplus.com/%3Ca%20href%3D"http://www.tv-logo.com/pt-data/uploads/images/logo/capital_tv_uk.jpg">http://www.tv-logo.com/pt-data/uploads/images/logo/capital_tv_uk.jpg" /></channel><channel id="Heart TV"><display-name>UK: HEART TV</display-name><icon src="http://webgrabplus.com/%3Ca%20href%3D"http://www.tv-logo.com/pt-data/uploads/images/logo/heart_tv_uk.jpg">http://www.tv-logo.com/pt-data/uploads/images/logo/heart_tv_uk.jpg" /></channel><channel id="Sky Action"><display-name>UK: SKY CINEMA ACTION &amp; ADVENTURE</display-name><icon src="http://webgrabplus.com/%3Ca%20href%3D"http://www.tv-logo.com/pt-data/uploads/images/logo/sky_uk_movies_action_adventure.jpg">http://www.tv-logo.com/pt-data/uploads/images/logo/sky_uk_movies_action_..." /></channel><channel id="Sky Action"><display-name>UK: SKY CINEMA ACTION &amp; ADVENTURE HD</display-name><icon src="http://webgrabplus.com/%3Ca%20href%3D"http://www.tv-logo.com/pt-data/uploads/images/logo/sky_uk_movies_action_adventure_hd.jpg">http://www.tv-logo.com/pt-data/uploads/images/logo/sky_uk_movies_action_..." /></channel><channel id="Sky Comedy"><display-name>UK: SKY CINEMA COMEDY</display-name><icon src="http://webgrabplus.com/%3Ca%20href%3D"http://www.tv-logo.com/pt-data/uploads/images/logo/sky_uk_movies_comedy.jpg">http://www.tv-logo.com/pt-data/uploads/images/logo/sky_uk_movies_comedy.jpg" /></channel><channel id="Sky Comedy"><display-name>UK: SKY CINEMA COMEDY HD</display-name><icon src="http://webgrabplus.com/%3Ca%20href%3D"http://www.tv-logo.com/pt-data/uploads/images/logo/sky_uk_movies_comedy_hd.jpg">http://www.tv-logo.com/pt-data/uploads/images/logo/sky_uk_movies_comedy_..." /></channel>

</programme><programme start="20171013140000 +0100" stop="20171013150000 +0100" channel="CBS Action" ><title>NCIS: Los Angeles</title><desc>Part two of two. Hetty and the NCIS team continue trying to find the elusive black book, but face competition from foreign security agencies keen to discover the secrets it contains - and Kensi is kidnapped as the search narrows(n)</desc></programme><programme start="20171013140000 +0100" stop="20171013150000 +0100" channel="CBS Drama" ><title>Medium</title><desc>Allison dreams about a husband and wife who die in suspicious circumstances and discovers that her vision may be useful to one of Devalos&apos;s colleagues. However, she finds he is not very receptive to her methods. Patricia Arquette stars(n)</desc></programme><programme start="20171013140000 +0100" stop="20171013143000 +0100" channel="Sky Arts" ><title>Auction</title><desc>Raphael&apos;s Head of a Young Apostle breaks records at an auction at Sotheby&apos;s. A desk believed to have been made for Madame de Pompadour also goes under the hammer in London(n)</desc></programme>

/Niklas

Edit: I see now that icons is from webgrabplus.com! :) 

Hi. Am have problem from this atrybut

merge-xmltv not grabe this

  <date>2016</ate>
   <country>USA</country>
    <episode-num system="xmltv_ns">s.2, e.21</episode-num>

Hello, I'm new here and for some reason I don't see any answers with the solution.
Could you please re-post it again?

Also, I wonder if merging two EPG URLs possible?
PS:
Well, actually I have XMLTV URL and "normal" EPG URL which need parsing and merging against with.

Did you start with webgrabplus-siteinipack\siteini.pack\Misc\merge-xmltv.ini ?

Yes I did but merge-xmltv.ini has only local xml merge out of box so I wonder how could I achieve remote merging also without saving local files first.

If someone else is still looking for a way to merge multiple epg xmls, I would like to recommend you the tool you can download at http://xmltv.org. It works with a very simple bash command:

xmltv tv_cat epg1.xml epg2.xml > myepg.xml

mosli wrote:

If someone else is still looking for a way to merge multiple epg xmls, I would like to recommend you the tool you can download at http://xmltv.org. It works with a very simple bash command:
xmltv tv_cat epg1.xml epg2.xml > myepg.xml

Can you help me little further regarding merging two EPG files? (EPG.xml & EPG_2.xml)

How exactly I have to make this bash command with XMLTV? I downloaded XMLTV from http://xmltv.org version 1.0.0 but I have no idea what to do next.

I also tried to configure WebGrab's own EPG Merge tool but can't manage to configure it either. I have to merge two EPG.xml files in order to get 1 EPG file I will host since most IPTV players do not support multiple EPG sources.

Thanks in advance for help! I need this pretty urgently.

Good morning.
I´m struggling to merge my webgrabplus resulting xml with a external xml from url.
I tried all the options described on the help files but it doesn´t work.
I only wanted to after my xml grabbed through webrab+plus app finished to merge with an external xml url.
Can someone help me please?

Thank You.
I attach my merge-xmltv.ini file.

you cant grab epg data from a site and merge another xml file at the same time.
you have grab the epg data first then setup another instance of webgrab to merge that epg.xml with your other source.

it can be done but there's a few steps involved and depending on your epg.xml data the stock merge-xmltv.ini most likelt cannot be used.

one big issue with it is that all epg must have the same time offset as it only has one setting for the generated combined xml file and assume all epg input data uses this same time offset.

another issue is if your using multi language epg data,again the stock merge ini sets the language attributes to whatever you set it to and ignores what the input xml files have.

then there's episode pattern information(onscreen or xmltv_ns),again its ignored and outpust whatever the merge ini is set to.

and any other thing that can go wrong..

a custom merge ini can be created to deal with all these problems.

back when the merge ini was created it was intended for the users grabbing local epg,then iptv took off and things are not the same anymore.

i would do some searching and reading,there is software/other methods to merge xml data,i dont know the name or links off the top of my head but its worth looking into.

Thank You Blackbear199.
So the way I´m asking is impossible to do with webgrab+plus?
I tried to use other software but windows versions are outdated and none of them worked.
If I download the xml from the external link I want to merge with my webgrab+plus xml can it be locally merged with webgrab+plus?
The time offset and languages are the same.

Thank you.

what are you using to view your epg data with.
most players support multiple epg xml files import,have you checked if you can simply do this?

I´m using several players, I made my own m3u from a xcode, and personalised my channel lists with logos and created epg for all channels that I have, I use mostly Tivimate, I know that I can add more than a source for epg.
The reason was to keep it simple, all in one file, this because I have more family members using my list and they already have all things configured to use my epg source, I manage the channel list, wich from time to time I add more channels, they dont know how to add more sources and they live faraway from me, if I manage to merge the two in one file was problem solved.

But anyway thank you form your help Blackbear199.

check out xTeVe
https://github.com/xteve-project/xTeVe

it can do everything you want and more...

Thank You.

I´ll give it a try!

And....thanks again Blackbear199:
https://github.com/SilentButeo2/webgrabplus-siteinipack/tree/master/post...