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swenner / grilo-plugin-arte

Grilo plugin to watch videos from Arte.tv
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Not all videos from the Arte website are available in the plugin #3

Open Malizor opened 7 years ago

Malizor commented 7 years ago

Original report by @GuillaumeHM.

Hello,

I'm very interested in the search feature so I checked out the last version of master branch where you enabled the feature and I installed it on my Debian Stretch. The 'Arte+7' tag appears now in list of search engines but when I use it I get a blank page. Comparatly, the Youtube search engine works well.

It seems some content search works fine (see corresponding online content page) :

But a lot of other don't :

Do you have the same behavior ? Am I missing something ?

Malizor commented 7 years ago

The plugin is getting its video list from the RSS feed. Example for French: http://www.arte.tv/papi/tvguide-flow/feeds/videos/fr.xml?type=ARTE_PLUS_SEVEN

It contains many videos (559 while I'm writing) but not everything. We should check if we can improve this situation without doing some ugly hack (because we are not going to parse HTML as we did at the start of the project, this breaks too often).

I don't know if the RSS feed is supposed to contain all videos. In this case it could be a bug on the Arte side. Checking if those videos are also available on smarttvs/apps would be helpful too, as those are supposed to use the same RSS feed as we do.

swenner commented 7 years ago

I realized that too. In addition some videos show up with quite some delay.

Malizor commented 7 years ago

I noticed these unknown videos are all from "Arte Concert", so I guess this is the one missing.

After searching I found this: https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge/issues/524#issuecomment-304857517

The referred private API yields a LOT of results (19163 here, just for French). However, I did not found how to perform searches on the title/description, so this won't help us until we figure it out.

GuillaumeHM commented 7 years ago

Ok, thank you for the answer. It may be possible to aggregate more than one RSS feed to populate the plugin list. Here is a page with Arte feeds : http://www.arte.tv/sites/services/flux-rss/ but I don't know if all videos from feeds are accessible for the plugin.