[dave1988]

Scrape my script scrape correct video url from website but cannot pass variable to directory listing

Hi everyone, I am trying to make an simple video addon, based on different url (it changes once in a while), so i need to scrap webpage before i can pass exact url to xbmc.addDirectory

So far in PythonShell i am able to 'print videourl'

Manually pasting that url from python shell it shows in video addon and plays fine but i need to get it scraped but got ScriptFailed while passing variables as url in xbmc.AddDirectory

And i was following an video addon tutorial to make an directory listing:

import urllib
import re
import xbmcgui
import xbmcplugin


#here i am parsing an url to get exact url
urls = ["justanfirstmainpageurl", "Thisurltobeparsed"]
regextokens = '<a href="(.+?)"><div class="btn_container">'
pattern = re.compile(regextokens)

len(urls)
htmlfile = urllib.urlopen(urls[1])
htmltext = htmlfile.read()
videourl = re.findall(pattern, htmltext)


#that is just for testing in PythonIDE and videourl is showing correct scraped url to be played in xbmc
#print videourl





addon_handle = int(sys.argv[1])

xbmcplugin.setContent(addon_handle, 'movies')

url = videourl #i have problem with this section

li = xbmcgui.ListItem('ParsedURLForVideo', iconImage='DefaultVideo.png')
xbmcplugin.addDirectoryItem(handle=addon_handle, url=url, listitem=li)

xbmcplugin.endOfDirectory(addon_handle)

If i would paste url manually it plays nicely without any problems, but question is how do You passing information between url and xbmc addDirectory?

but when i tried to put an variable videourl i have an ScriptFailed!

Hope any one do know an answer, or thoughts?

Thanks for looking anyways.




////////edit

I have found an issue in url there is an symbols that i need to delete and thats why it crashes question is how can i repair that?

debug.log

23:20:42 T:4612 WARNING: XFILE::CFileFactory::CreateLoader - Unsupported protocol(['http) in


and oryginal url is:

['http://anyexamples.com/myfile/?d=1402956534&play=362276699']

i have set videourl to str and tried with unicode and still without success.


Anyone knows how can i remove [' on beggining on url and '] at end of url?





...............................solved, to remove them characters i used:

1.changed url to string format, that was first issue
videourlstr = str(videoscrapedurl)

2.removed [' from string oryginal scraped url in first phase then
surl1 = videoscrapedurl.replace("['", "")

3. removed '] from second phase
surl2 = surl1.replace("']", "")
#print surldoma2

4. and passed surl2 into directory url =)