export playlist with curl not working

Lukáš Hájnik

Hello everyone. I have been using TVheadend for about 5 years, version 4.2.8-36. A few days ago I deployed a new unstable 4.3-2010 on my Debian 11. The thing is, I used curl to export a playlist and an xmltv EPG timed in crontab. curl worked in version 4.2.8-36, but in the new 4.3-2010 it can't save the playlist correctly. My command looks like this:
http: // user: pass @ IP: 9981 / playlist / auth / tagname / Sport
If I put this url in a web browser, the Sport.m3u playlist with the inserted auth code will be downloaded immediately, which is great, but it would be even better if curl could do it. Thanks for the help.

davep

What is the output of your curl command?

Have you seen the (unofficial) API docs at https://github.com/dave-p/TVH-API-docs/wiki/Other-Functions#playlist ?

According to the docs (which may be wrong),

/playlist/auth/tagname/

uses Persistent Authentication, so you would need to append the persistent auth code as a parameter eg


http://user:pass@IP:9981/playlist/auth/tagname/Sport?auth=8ef7aa08e516060ca4330730c60e00d5b5174920

Lukáš Hájnik

I also tried to export the playlist as follows:
# curl http://sport:sport@10.10.10.244:9981/playlist the answer was:
[[<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<TITLE>401 Unauthorized</TITLE>
</HEAD><BODY>
<H1>401 Unauthorized</H1>

<P STYLE="text-align: center; margin: 2em"><A HREF="/" STYLE="border: 1px solid; border-radius: 4px; padding: .6em">Default login</A></P><P STYLE="text-align: center; margin: 2em"><A HREF="/login" STYLE="border: 1px solid; border-radius: 4px; padding: .6em">New login</A></P></BODY></HTML>]]

So I tried to add the authorization code to the URL
## curl http://sport:sport@100.10.10.244:9981/playlist/auth?auth={authcode} the answer was:
[[<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<TITLE>401 Unauthorized</TITLE>
</HEAD><BODY>
<H1>401 Unauthorized</H1>

or
### curl http://sport:sport@10.10.10.244:9981/playlist/auth/tagname/Sport?auth=PvVFdEWH0KBAicrbLLqDkOZqKXKM the answer was:
[[<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<TITLE>401 Unauthorized</TITLE>
</HEAD><BODY>
<H1>401 Unauthorized</H1>

Note that all 3 URLs above, when I enter a web browser, the playlist downloads and I can play it on my PC.
Thanks.

Saen Acro

You not use correct URL for CURL


curl http://sport:sport@10.10.10.244:9981/playlist

must be

curl http://sport:sport@10.10.10.244:9981/playlist/channels

Other problem is that you useplain authentication, when in your settings is setdigest add something as this


curl http://10.10.10.244:9981/playlist/auth/channels --digest -u sport:sport

Lukáš Hájnik

saen acro wrote:
> You not use correct URL for CURL
> [...]
> must be
> [...]
>
> Other problem is that you useplain authentication, when in your settings is setdigest > add something as this

> [...]

this not working
# curl http://sport:sport@10.10.10.244:9981/playlist/channels

I will get the same result as written above

this works:

curl http://10.10.10.244:9981/playlist/auth/channels --digest -u sport:sport

when I only want to download a specific tag? so like this?
# curl http://10.10.10.244:9981/playlist/auth/tagname/Sport --digest -u sport:sport
Thanks

Saen Acro

Get tags list


:9981/playlist/tags/

and select the one you need.