[Xmltv-devel] Fwd: URGENT: your use of MetaBroadcast Atlas

[Dreamcat4]

Hi there,
Just received this email today from Atlas (who provide the online EPG
schedules in uk). Would really like to fix the problem before they ban my
API key... unfortunately I'm not quite sure how to achieve this. Because
the xmltv is being exec()e'd from tvheadend. Which does not expose any
settings box to pass argv[] cmdline flags on the cmdline:

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So can I instead add some extra configuration lines into my config file?

~/.xmltv/tvh_grab_uk_atlas.conf

Any help appreciated. Kind regards.


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Chris Jackson <***@metabroadcast.com>
Date: Mon, May 9, 2016 at 8:30 PM
Subject: URGENT: your use of MetaBroadcast Atlas
To: ***@metabroadcast.com


Hi,

As part of some ongoing changes, we have noticed your Atlas application is
requesting a large amount of data each day, including requesting more than
24 hours of data in a single API call.

Please can you ensure that you are fully compliant with the terms and
conditions, listed here: http://atlas.metabroadcast.com/admin#/terms.

For clarity, this means you should only request the data you need, when you
need it, and not every channel in one batch. Additionally, please limit
each call you make to a maximum of 24 hours of data.

Please make the changes required by 1800 BST on Saturday 14 May.
Unfortunately, if we see further calls after that point that do not match
the terms, or request more than 24 hours of data in a single call, we will
need to suspend your API key.

Free access to Atlas is offered on a self-service basis. We hope you can
find all the info you need in our own documentation at
http://atlas.metabroadcast.com/, or from the maintainers of any 3rd party
software you are using.

If you do need to contact us, please use the form here:
http://atlas.metabroadcast.com/admin#/contact. We are unable to answer
correspondence via any other route.

Thanks for your cooperation,
Chris

[Dreamcat4]

Post by Dreamcat4
Hi there,
Just received this email today from Atlas (who provide the online EPG
schedules in uk). Would really like to fix the problem before they ban my
API key... unfortunately I'm not quite sure how to achieve this. Because
the xmltv is being exec()e'd from tvheadend. Which does not expose any
http://i.imgur.com/flg1aCL.png
So can I instead add some extra configuration lines into my config file?
~/.xmltv/tvh_grab_uk_atlas.conf
Any help appreciated. Kind regards.

(BTW - this is with xmltv version 0.5.67-0.1, the official apt pkg
installed on ubuntu 16.04 host)

Post by Dreamcat4
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Mon, May 9, 2016 at 8:30 PM
Subject: URGENT: your use of MetaBroadcast Atlas
Hi,
As part of some ongoing changes, we have noticed your Atlas application is
requesting a large amount of data each day, including requesting more than
24 hours of data in a single API call.
Please can you ensure that you are fully compliant with the terms and
conditions, listed here: http://atlas.metabroadcast.com/admin#/terms.
For clarity, this means you should only request the data you need, when
you need it, and not every channel in one batch. Additionally, please limit
each call you make to a maximum of 24 hours of data.
Please make the changes required by 1800 BST on Saturday 14 May.
Unfortunately, if we see further calls after that point that do not match
the terms, or request more than 24 hours of data in a single call, we will
need to suspend your API key.
Free access to Atlas is offered on a self-service basis. We hope you can
find all the info you need in our own documentation at
http://atlas.metabroadcast.com/, or from the maintainers of any 3rd party
software you are using.
http://atlas.metabroadcast.com/admin#/contact. We are unable to answer
correspondence via any other route.
Thanks for your cooperation,
Chris

[Robert Eden]

Wow.. that's big news and quite annoying. Maybe you can explain to them
what you're doing and ask how far apart you can spread the requests to
even out the load. I know on the Schedules Direct side, MythTV is
terrible about scheduling.... I still see huge peaks on the hour
(especially 2am locals) from MythTV users and fixing it is very troublesome.

One possibility is to help Kevin update tv_grab_sd_json to be ready for
XMLTV distribution and to handle non-North American lineups... Schedules
Direct does have data for the UK.
https://github.com/kgroeneveld/tv_grab_sd_json


Robert Kulagowski also wrote a direct MythTV grabber/loaderfor the
SD-JSON service. https://github.com/SchedulesDirect/mfdb-json (That
doesn't use XMLTV)



Robert