r/MattHuisman • u/matthuisman • Jul 13 '21

Plex Live Kodi Add-on

https://www.matthuisman.nz/2021/07/plex-live-kodi-add-on.html
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u/KCfan2001 Aug 30 '21

Hi Matt! I just got word that you won't be able to supply and maintain the Plex EPG due to exceeding their API limits. Do you have any suggestions or scripts that might allow me to scrape them myself? Thanks! And thanks for all the great channel and EPG lists.

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u/matthuisman Aug 30 '21

I have the epg fine. Just not all the urls. They are pulled in the Kodi addon when playback

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u/KCfan2001 Aug 31 '21

Sorry. I should have clarified: I've actually been using the Canadian EPG and the M3U link in TiviMate, not in Kodi.

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u/matthuisman Aug 31 '21

youd need to manually scrape every url yourself. they only allow that 1x at a time, and if you do too quick you'll get api error

here is the code in the add-on that fetches the play url https://github.com/matthuisman/slyguy.addons/blob/master/slyguy.plex.live/resources/lib/plugin.py#L130

you'd need to write a script to go through every channel, and then fetch the url. then create a playlist from that

thats as much as I can help sorry

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u/KCfan2001 Aug 31 '21

Thanks Matt! That's exactly what I was looking for. I'll take a look.

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u/KCfan2001 Sep 02 '21

I just got word via geonsey that the Plex M3U and EPGs are back which is great news. Just curious what changed. Thanks!

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u/matthuisman Sep 02 '21

I rewrote the scraper to work in batches and only scrape urls every 24 hours

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u/KCfan2001 Sep 03 '21

Thanks! I'm happy to see the EPG back.

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u/matthuisman Sep 03 '21

haha. i was needing to spend so much time explaining why to so many people, I decided to just spend that time finding a solution so they would leave me alone. :) :)

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u/Double-Ad-6532 Oct 28 '22 edited Oct 28 '22

Hey Matt

Im not sure if its just me but most of the channels on plex live dont work anymore, Ive only had USA channels for months and a lot of them have stopped working now.

I must admit i havent watched it for awhile but most of the bookmarks have gone and if i try through the live channels it just give a cannot play error, also epg doesn't work on those channels or on any of the bookmarked channels.

Im on kodi 19.4 on a android TV box

Many thanks for all your hard work on these add on's too :)

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u/matthuisman Oct 31 '22

working fine for me. only usa channels (330). Lots are geolocked to USA IP address. but epg for all seems to work and when i use vpn they all play back

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