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2021-09-11, 09:43
I am trying to use the Fox News add on from the official Kodi repo and it hasn’t been working fully for at least a few weeks ever since I got Kodi. The clips section will work but none of the videos work if you try to open up the full episodes section. Can someone please fix this! Thank you much.
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Using current version 7.0.0, I noticed the code under def getAddonVideo(self,url): was different than the full context described in the earlier post. I imagine there has been a change since the original post which affects the proper functioning of the edit. I tried this edit anyways, and the addon didn't start up anymore. I reverted back, but having the same problem as others previously - no full episodes. All other content seems to be working.
Your time and help on this would be most appreciated! Thanks.
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Thanks for this fix. Besides Linux and Windows, I run Kodi on Android. Has anyone successfully updated done this on Android? Do I have to root the phone/tablet to get edit access to scraper.py?
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Do you need to be logged in to a provider to get full episodes
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Thank you very much for this update!!! Really glad it is working again!
Any chance the Fox Nation content is inside of the addon?
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Unfortunately no, I looked into adding it along with the live video feed but as far as I could tell both required a valid login to gain access. Not to say that I couldn't add subscriber authentication but I don't have the knowledge about how the process works required to implement it, nor do I have an account or TV provider login with which to test. That being said I've spent some time looking at other Kodi add-ons which provide login functionality to see how they do it in the hope that I can gain some insight, hopefully it's somewhat standardized across websites and leads to a breakthrough.
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I got so frustrated with the FoxNews plugin not working that I just rolled my own basic scraper.
The main problem, as I saw it, with the efforts in the past is that they were brittle and support was pretty scarce.
The scaper I have is pretty simple.... 1) it's just for the news articles 2)It's stupid simple with a trivial cache.
Not sure if anyone else has made progress and I'm not involved on the development end...
That said, if anyone is stuck and wants a simple working scraper for the FoxNews plugin then please let me know.
Just trying to help.
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Would definitely appreciate any help on this. As it is in the official KODI repository one would expect it to work or at minimum be fixed in a week or two. But the FOX News add-on, regardless of KODI version goes down very frequently and can be months before it works again. Currently I am running KODI on Android/NVIDIA shield, Fire Stick, Raspberry Pi 4, and a LINUX laptop. Lost FOX News add-on on all of them and it has been months now. All I get is a menu of Files, Playlists, Video add-ons. To be honest, as the "Logs" are meaningless for mere mortals, I shut that feature down long ago.