Grabbing Schedules Direct JSON includig Icons AND Artworks

TribunMaximus

Hi together,

since two days I try to find a grabber to get Data, Icons AND Artworks from Schedules Direct an forward it to Jellyfin finally. Dos anybody has experience in that and give me a hint, which Grabber I hav to use, and if there are any special settings which have to be done?

Thanks for your help!

Br
JEns

DeltaMikeCharlie

I have never done this, but I think that you need to install xmltv-util and use their SD grabber. You will need to find the command for your exact Linux distribution, but you could also try sudo apt-get install xmltv-util and see if that works.

Search this forum for "Schedules Direct", many other users seem to do this. https://tvheadend.org/?q=schedules%20direct%20

The answer from @Lisa White in this thread seems very detailed. Perhaps it can help.
https://tvheadend.org/d/8278-how-to-install-and-use-schedules-direct-with-tvheadend-tv_grab_zz_sdjson_sqlite

TribunMaximus

Hi DeltaMikeCharlie,

thanks for your replay. I already tried the mentioned tv_grab_az_sdjson_sqlite grabber which is working.
But when it comes to artwork I get the following error message:

spawn: Opening the local database spawn: Obtaining authentication token for Schedules Direct spawn: Schedules Direct account expires on 2025-12-21T18:10:32 spawn: Schedules Direct data last updated on 2025-10-30T11:02:39 spawn: Downloading data from Schedules Direct spawn: Obtaining authentication token for Schedules Direct ... spawn: Downloading data for DEU-1000143-DEFAULT spawn: downloading station schedule hashes for 1930 stations spawn: downloading schedule hashes for 250 stations in this chunk spawn: downloading schedule hashes for 250 stations in this chunk ... ... spawn: downloading 1045 new, updated, or missing daily schedules spawn: downloading 1000 new, updated, or missing daily schedules in this chunk spawn: downloading 45 new, updated, or missing daily schedules in this chunk spawn: downloading 795 new, updated, or missing programs spawn: downloading 28 new, updated, or missing programs for supplemental data spawn: downloading 793 new, updated, or missing artwork spawn: downloading 500 new, updated, or missing artwork for programs in this chunk of total 793 artwork spawn: Unexpected error when obtaining artwork: HTTP response code was not successful (400) (will retry) spawn: downloading 293 new, updated, or missing artwork for programs in this chunk of total 793 artwork spawn: Unexpected error when obtaining artwork: HTTP response code was not successful (400) (will retry) spawn: downloading 793 new, updated, or missing artwork (retry 1) spawn: downloading 500 new, updated, or missing artwork for programs in this chunk of total 793 artwork spawn: Unexpected error when obtaining artwork: HTTP response code was not successful (400) (will retry) spawn: downloading 293 new, updated, or missing artwork for programs in this chunk of total 793 artwork spawn: Unexpected error when obtaining artwork: HTTP response code was not successful (400) (will retry) spawn: downloading 793 new, updated, or missing artwork (retry 2) ... ... spawn: 2084 channels processed

So I`m not sure if NO artwork-links are grabbed or NOT ALL artwork-links are downloaded.
Is there any chance to find this in TVHeadend? And does anybody know how to solve this error-messags?

Many thanks for your help!

Br
Jens