Zap2XML was working great for months, but lately is throwing a lot of 400 Bad Requests rendering the data useless. Have tried with and without VPN from multiple locations. Even tried a Virtual Machine. Also used different logins in Zap2it and multiple retries in my command.
Also tried executing the batch file at different times of the day... last time I could get it to work all the way through was 6/7. Get errors sporadically even though tvlistings.zap2it.com seems fine.
Anyone else experience the same "400 Bad Requests"? Could be time to find a new EPG provider unfortunately...
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I believe 14 days is getting close to what zap2it makes available. You also are bumping up against diminishing returns as you go further out as well as increasing runtime and load on zap2it servers.
even 14 days out is somewhat marginal accuracy, esp program details.
If you try it, report back on the results.
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i have never been able to schedule the xml batch to run.
I can run it manually fine but the scheduler failed with 0x1.
Can someone help me understand where it failed?
TIA
Response from developer:
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Hello,
Unfortunately a lawyer for a big corp didn't like it, but it is still
available on the way back machine
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Since they chose to contact him in that way, I wouldn't be surprised if a relatively minor change occurs on the site fairly soon
Last edit: s armstrong 2020-05-03
Thanks for the update 👍
What sort of change are you refering to?
It's a Perl script, should be easy to edit if zap2it changes something right? Could also switch to tvguide.
I found older versions of zap2xml on github, can someone put the "latest" version up there somewhere? https://github.com/shuaiscott/zap2xml/network/members
Last edit: xyn19 2020-05-03
Zap2XML was working great for months, but lately is throwing a lot of 400 Bad Requests rendering the data useless. Have tried with and without VPN from multiple locations. Even tried a Virtual Machine. Also used different logins in Zap2it and multiple retries in my command.
Also tried executing the batch file at different times of the day... last time I could get it to work all the way through was 6/7. Get errors sporadically even though tvlistings.zap2it.com seems fine.
Anyone else experience the same "400 Bad Requests"? Could be time to find a new EPG provider unfortunately...
A question on the Zap2XML.
Is there a reason for the 14 days instead of 28 days to get 4 weeks of program instead of 2?
TIA
I believe 14 days is getting close to what zap2it makes available. You also are bumping up against diminishing returns as you go further out as well as increasing runtime and load on zap2it servers.
even 14 days out is somewhat marginal accuracy, esp program details.
If you try it, report back on the results.
i have never been able to schedule the xml batch to run.
I can run it manually fine but the scheduler failed with 0x1.
Can someone help me understand where it failed?
TIA
Last edit: philip 2021-01-27
You probably don't want your password out in public.
I'll see if anything is obvious and post back