[Bug]: zap2it.tmsimg.com no longer available - no icons

[NumberB]

What happened?

The DNS name zap2it.tmsimg.com no longer resolves (verified with www.nslookup.io), and as such you are no longer able to pull image assets such as icons from that site.

This seems to be part of the degradation of gracenote, and I'm not sure if there is an alternative URL for image icons.

For now we may need an option to not include image assets as a boolean, and perhaps automatically if $urlAssets doesn't load? Just thinking out loud. That would at least prevent unnecessary lookups and logging errors due to the site being down, since the rest of the EPG appears to still be functional (for now).

Relevant log output

Feb 19 13:24:32 tvhserver tvheadend[14946]: httpc: 007C: Unable to connect to zap2it.tmsimg.com:443 - Name or service not known
Feb 19 13:24:32 tvhserver tvheadend[14946]: imagecache: failed to download https://zap2it.tmsimg.com/assets/p32369893_e_v4_aa.jpg

[Swamp-up]

I can also verify that the zap2it images are now longer working. Noticed it last week. I also noticed that the images aren't working on the tvlistings.gracenote urls as well.

[treypop]

same issue

[jesmannstl]

There's been no updates on this branch in 7 months. My fork has had many updates including an image url swap the morning the zap2it images died. https://github.com/jesmannstl/zap2xml

[NumberB]

Thanks for the update!

May I ask where you found the dshm.tmsimg.com URL?

[Swamp-up]

Actually. I found that if you just drop the zap2it. you still get the correct images.

[ferrellsl]

Actually. I found that if you just drop the zap2it. you still get the correct images.

I can verify your finding. I edited the zap2xml.pl Perl script and compiled a new binary and tested it after editing the URL and removing zap2it. Images are downloading again just fine.

[Swamp-up]

I edited mine as well but for some reason it is still adding the zap2it. On the images. I am going to have to have another look at it tonight.

[ferrellsl]

I edited mine as well but for some reason it is still adding the zap2it. On the images. I am going to have to have another look at it tonight.

Down around line 158, change the line that reads: $urlAssets = 'https://zap2it.tmsimg.com/assets/';

to

$urlAssets = 'https://tmsimg.com/assets/';

[helpdeskdan]

You can change that and it work - as long as you don't try to get icons

[Swamp-up]

anyone figure out how to get the icon images to drop the zap2it?

[Swamp-up]

There's been no updates on this branch in 7 months. My fork has had many updates including an image url swap the morning the zap2it images died. https://github.com/jesmannstl/zap2xml

But are you updating the perl version? Last update was 7 months ago and that appears to be when you uploaded the historical script. You updating whatever vibe coding you have doesn't help us that still want to use the perl script.

[jesmannstl]

At this point I'm wondering how much longer the site itself will be there

[helpdeskdan]

Alas, I am not that smart and speak not a word of perl. Yet, I believe a quick, effective kluge would be line 954

 952 sub getURL {
 953   my $url = shift;
 954   $url =~ s/zap2it\.//;                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
 955   my $er = shift;
 956   &login() if !defined($ua);
 957 

[helpdeskdan]

Oh... maybe you mean the images in the xml file... well, I think this seems to work, here's a quick diff. Maybe one of those aren't necessary - not terribly motivated to fix it correctly, not to mention my perl deficiency

On a side not though, a big thanks to jesmannstl and jef for their work on this.

 
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< $urlAssets = 'https://tmsimg.com/assets/';
---
> $urlAssets = 'https://zap2it.tmsimg.com/assets/';
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<       $params .= '&TMSID=&AffiliateID=chi&FromPage=TV%20Grid';
---
>       $params .= '&TMSID=&AffiliateID=orbebb&FromPage=TV%20Grid';
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<       $stations{$key}{logoURL} =~ s/zap2it\.//;
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<         $programs{$p}{imageUrl} =~ s/zap2it\.//;
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<   $phash{aid} = 'chi';
---
>   $phash{aid} = 'orbebb';
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<   $url =~ s/zap2it\.//;
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<   $url =~ s/zap2it\.//;
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<       $phash{$big} =~ s/zap2it\.//;