sportklub.si

Hi Guys,

I am always alert if there are problems with time elements (start, stop). This is one of the examples of channels that have no shows for several days. On top of that there is no date component in the starttimes . So WG++ has to add the date and that goes wrong if no shows on some days.

Blackbear has solved that by adding dummy shows (no Listing), which is the way to do that. Following that method I have optimized it a bit by adding two dummie shows for a 24 hour period. The index page normally covers a timeframe from 06:00 to 05:59 . I added one starting at 06:00 and another at 18:00. These two is enough to get the date calculation correct. I used a loop to step through all the indexpage blocks to see if they are 'empty' adding the dummies and rebuilding the indexblocks.
​I fear it is still not 100% safe. If there is a indexblock with only shows after midnight (the next day) it will go wrong. Hope that doesn't happen

​Blackbear, very clever how you solved the problem with the channel selection ! (with includeblock and a site_id number) I am impressed. !!!
​You have the channellist left as 'manual'   I added a solution to generate the same file automatically. I hope you don't mind.

The ini is added to the Inidb:   http://www.webgrabplus.com/sites/default/files/download/ini/info/zip/Slo...

Jan

Hi Blackbear,

adding a date is exactly what WG++ does (at least tries to do) internally. That works fine if the subsequent shows are never more than one day apart. Because it has to detect when a day jump occurs (roughly : last show before midnight next show after midnight) Then it adds 1 day to the date. etc But it is impossible to know howmany days to add if shows are more than 1 day apart.
​You suggest to add the date in the showsplit. But then you have the same problem. Urldate is the date of the indexpage, but that value is not available anymore at the moment of showsplit (the index pages are already added together). The urldate value can only be used in url's and headers , during the grabbing.
​But for your suggestion we can use another date value, like 'now' for the first block and add one day for every next one. I wanted to do that with this site, but this one has shows past midnight in every block (indexpages from 06.00 to 06:00) So to add a date, we have to step through all the shows, find where it paases midnight, then add a day etc. But that is exactly what WG++ does already internally !! So I gave up that idea.

​I feel that the concept of adding dummy shows as we both tried is the only way .. (or?)

​Tomorrow I will have a look why it fails   

Jan

Hi guys,

this thread is starting to be where some serious problems are discussed and solved. Blackbear cracked the sk5 and 6 channels of sportklub. We (the whole team, Francis, Blackbear and me have discussed the date-addition  problem for channels like this (few or no shows per day). That is a problem that occurs now and then and always needs special solutions. We have a vague idea how to solve internally with a wg++ program update, but that's for later.
​I promissed Blackbear that I would also finish my solution using only existing siteini commands . It doesn't disturb the grabbing of the other channels It works as follows:
​1. Add dummy shows ( at 06:00 and 00:00 in this case) for days that no shows are scheduled
​2. Split the indexpages in individual shows and keep a kind of 'dummy day (page) separator show' in it for each start of an indexpage
3. step through this list of shows and page separators
4. subtract 6 hours from all the starttimes in the shows . This is essential to get all shows of one index page on one day. (The shows are listed here from 06:00 - 05:59 the next day, by subtracting 6 hours we get from 00:00 -23.59, all on one day)
​5. add the date to it by starting with the 'now' date for the first page and increment this date by 1 day each time a pageseparator is detected.
​6. reinsert the date-time in the show
7. remove the page separators
8. The rest is more or less the regular scrubbing of the elements, but now we have the correct date already added to the start time.
​9. Add the 6 hours to the start date time which was subtracted to it above.

​This solution is a bit more universal than the one of Blackbear. I like to ask Janko to run some tests. After that we decide what to add to the siteini db

Jan

Hi,

All shows are correctly listed until 20.3 for all channels. No listing on 21 and 22.3 , but also correct because the site has also nothing there. Maybe the site wasn't updated at the time you tried.

​@ Blackbear : For some reason your solution has some 'empty' shows in the xmltv , like
<programme start="20160316060000 +0100" stop="20160316060000 +0100" channel="SK5">

Jan

Based on vert-sportklub.si_.ini downloaded from here I created a sportklub.rs.ini for RS site. But whatever number I enter for site_id in WebGrab++.config.xml I'm getting schedule for SK1 channel. Anyone can help?

Goran wrote:

Use sportklub.info created by Blackbear199.
working fine just select channel for RS site.

Thanks. Didn't find this version on the this site.
Still it has a problem with a site_id. Eg. for RS SK HD site_id is 'rs/TV-Program##5' (5th column on .rs page), and in the sportklub.info.channels.xml its 'rs/TV-Program##8'. First 4 channels are probably ok for RS.
Also a result schedule is not complete as is on the pages.

Goran wrote:

holi wrote:
Also a result schedule is not complete as is on the pages.

Is not completed because grabbing is from 00:00 to 24:00 for current day. What starts on page after 00:00 is on next day.
Fala Gorane! :)

channels for RS site attached.

Goran wrote:

Is not completed because grabbing is from 00:00 to 24:00 for current day. What starts on page after 00:00 is on next day.
channels for RS site attached.

Fala Gorane! :)

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