API has changed?

[Robadob]

Been using this for a few years now, as of last night the call to api.TVDB('<KEY>') is failing with a 403 response code.

Being 403 (forbidden), I've attempted rotating API keys, however this has no effect.

Clearing the libraries cache in temp has no effect either.

[tcdude]

Looks as if there's a problem with APIv1/v2, there's a forum thread on thetvdb.com, where people are facing the problem that's causing the 403 response when trying to access: "http://www.thetvdb.com/api/{api_key}/mirrors.xml".

[Robadob]

API appears to be back up, but now it's throwing an exception I've not seen it produce before.

   namePairs[showName].update();
  File "C:\Program Files\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pytvdbapi\api.py", line 212, in update
    self._populate_data()
  File "C:\Program Files\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pytvdbapi\api.py", line 233, in _populate_data
    data = self.api.loader.load(url)
  File "C:\Program Files\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pytvdbapi\loader.py", line 76, in load
    return zip_file.open('{0}.xml'.format(filename))
  File "C:\Program Files\Anaconda3\lib\zipfile.py", line 1352, in open
    zinfo = self.getinfo(name)
  File "C:\Program Files\Anaconda3\lib\zipfile.py", line 1281, in getinfo
    'There is no item named %r in the archive' % name)
KeyError: "There is no item named 'en.xml' in the archive"

Looking in the api's datastore in TEMP, there are alot of files named thetvdb.com,api,<REDACTED_APIKEY>,series,332862,all,en.zip,e635183558afb675eda65556595aefd1

Opening one of these, shows it to be the full response, header + body.

status: 200
content-type: application/zip
content-length: 1184
connection: keep-alive
date: Sun, 17 Nov 2019 23:11:27 GMT
x-amzn-requestid: d6885e4b-4b29-4301-87b1-ee4420dc6bd1
content-transfer-encoding: binary
content-disposition: attachment; filename="en.zip.zip"
content-description: File Transfer
content-rating: 
x-amz-apigw-id: DU4AiHycvHcFlRw=
x-amzn-trace-id: Root=1-5dd1d39c-8e9b17b03d5ea5b8cf1d12f0;Sampled=0
via: 1.1 36777c2dbd3e7df2effc3bbfbc9042cf.cloudfront.net (CloudFront), 1.1 3de2b8f6c14c41dccebf4a62152f971d.cloudfront.net (CloudFront)
x-amz-cf-pop: LHR50-C1, LHR4
x-cache: Hit from cloudfront
x-amz-cf-id: RsM5wFEW-L6BDyS-2X11zWQZmal57bgvLiX5zjtIXangYKmMiJQYOQ==
content-location: https://thetvdb.com/api/<REDACTED_APIKEY>/series/332862/all/en.zip

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Which, if the header is stripped, opens fine as a .zip, and contains en.zip.xml rather than en.xml.

I'll try and look into this more in the week.

Edit: Changing pytvdbapi\loader.py:76 to this has worked as a temporary fix that should continue to function if the change is reverted.

            try:
              return zip_file.open('{0}.xml'.format(filename))
            except:
              return zip_file.open('{0}.zip.xml'.format(filename))

[fuzzycode]

The new error that you are seeing looks related to this forum thread where v2 and v3 of the API appears to be fixed but V1 remains broken.

I will hold on and see if they will provide a V1 fix or if pytvdvapi needs to adapt.