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seems to be working again without any updates to the addon - so perhaps it was a website issue after all.
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Agreed. Strange that it didn't work all weekend until they posted a new episode... Sad

(2014-06-17, 16:58)farcus Wrote: seems to be working again without any updates to the addon - so perhaps it was a website issue after all.
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now it stopped working again, 12h ago it did work
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Same here. Either TDS was doing maintenance the entire weekend for two weekends in a row (unlikely), or they're changing the data somehow during the weekend in a way that makes the plugin not work (more likely).

Sounds like someone will have to re-jigger the plugin so that it can handle the weekends...
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The plugin scrapes http://thedailyshow.cc.com/full-episodes and expects the first video url found to point to the latest episode. From the plugin itself:

Code:
url = 'http://thedailyshow.cc.com/full-episodes/'
     # Due to unstructured daily show site, there is no canonical JSON url
     # so we find the full episode json url presented on the latest full episode

But the TDS website is currently promoting a special edition episode. Visit that URL yourself and see. The first video url corresponds to the 'Mess-o-Potamia' SE episode which is embedded in the page itself. Next four video urls also link to SE episodes, then regular episodes are listed followed by Colbert Report links and finally 'Today's Top Video' links.

The plugin blindly follows the first video url hoping to get a list of current episodes but it gets the embedded SE episode instead, thus failing. My previous post shows the changes needed to examine all video urls. That approach works but unfortunately includes the Colbert Report videos too (but not 'Top Videos' as those links have a different format and aren't captured by the search regexp).
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Fixing it is beyond my ability, but I hope someone who has the capability does so! Smile
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Colbert addon currently giving me script errors.
Website is showing latest full episode (July 14)
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Daily show completely broken too.
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(2014-07-26, 02:00)Ds17 Wrote: Daily show completely broken too.

I don't actually think the addon is broken - the issues appear to be more related to the Comedy Central website.
Over the past couple of weeks the full episode site for both Colbert and Daily show has been up and down. New episode are being added much later in the day than usual etc etc etc.
Could be the usual website admin is on vacation :-D
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(2014-07-26, 12:46)farcus Wrote:
(2014-07-26, 02:00)Ds17 Wrote: Daily show completely broken too.

I don't actually think the addon is broken - the issues appear to be more related to the Comedy Central website.
Over the past couple of weeks the full episode site for both Colbert and Daily show has been up and down. New episode are being added much later in the day than usual etc etc etc.
Could be the usual website admin is on vacation :-D

Hah, yeah, I should've been more specific Blush

Hopefully they'll put it back to normal soon.
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Today the addon has been marked as broken in the repository. A little premature, don't you think?
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Hi,

I too have noticed that the plugin isn't working. Yes, you are correct, changes to the CC website have caused the latest problems.

I have taken a look at the addon.py script that powers this plugin and have re-coded parts of the full_episodes function to attempt to make it more robust.
Good news is that I managed to get it to display the full list of latest episodes.
Bad news is that they do not play. The opening stream dialog is displayed then disappears without the video starting.

I was hoping that the only problem was the way the code determines the feeds from the CC website. Of course nothing can be that easy.

I might revisit the problem tomorrow, but can't promise any results as this is my first foray into Python.[/align]
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(2014-07-28, 17:04)kaisersosai Wrote: I was hoping that the only problem was the way the code determines the feeds from the CC website. Of course nothing can be that easy.

See here:
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...pid1759758
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I see...likely way beyond my capabilities to fix then.
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Does anyone know where the source of the current version is hosted? I've found this plugin as a part of BlueCop's repos on Google Code and Github but neither site has been updated in years. I also found some other repos on Github, none of which have been updated in the last 13 months. Where does XBMC add-on browser pull the plugin source from?
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