Fetchtv program images broken

[coxy86]

Hi team. I've noticed in the last 24 hours that the fetchtv guide website in Australia has broken images for programs in their hosted tv guide. This means that the epg your service generates has blank images that now don't work. There's probably nothing you can do as this relies on fetch tv. But maybe an alternative could be freeview.com.au and their hosted tv guide.

Thanks team

[coxy86]

Hi, you can disregard my message. It is still an issue but I found the free_au.pl file which scrapes freeview. So am using that instead.

[networkoctopus]

hey @coxy86 how did you manage to fix this or source free_au.pl ? any steps would be much appreciated :D

[networkoctopus]

I'm guessing you meant free_epg.pl? https://github.com/markcs/xml_tv/wiki/Freeview-Australia-xmltv

[coxy86]

I'm guessing you meant free_epg.pl? https://github.com/markcs/xml_tv/wiki/Freeview-Australia-xmltv

Hey @networkoctopus
Yeah correct. It's a bit hit and miss with the program images but trying to fix that using AI.

[networkoctopus]

yeh i haven't had much luck fixing it with other sources.. soholding out for a fix with xml_tv.. Might be misguided if fetch dont have a public api endpoint exposed anymore

[coxy86]

I've had some luck with the free_epg.pl with grabbing program images from the freeview tv guide. But at this stage, the program images do not come across to the IPTV guide currently. That's the hurdle I'm trying to fix currently. FWIW, it seems to be pretty rock solid, but the program images are defiantly hit and miss.

[coxy86]

I've made some progress on the program images from Freeview for the guide. Hopefully this is a suitable alternative until fetch fixes their side, if they ever do

[matthuisman]

The fix is
$guidedata->{$channel_number}->[$programcount]->{icon} = "https://www.fetchtv.com.au/v2/epg/program/".$programdata->[$program_fields->{program_id}]."/image";

to

$guidedata->{$channel_number}->[$programcount]->{icon} = "https://www.fetchtv.com.au/v2/epg/program/".$programdata->[$program_fields->{hashed_program_id}]."/image";