[RELEASE] Stream Link/File Manager for Channels [Streaming Library Manager Extension]

[Fofer]

Exactly! I brought it up at a dinner party this weekend too, lol.

There’s always been sites like ReelGood and JustWatch to keep track of our queues. Or “Up Next” on tvOS, for almost everything, except Netflix of course. Now finally with CDVR + SLM we have a single platform that can aggregate our shows and movie collection in a very personalized way. And it’s not just for tracking the shows but it’s also a launchpad to organize and view them, that actually works. My friends were impressed. Suffice it to say that conversation will likely be bringing in new CDVR users soon.

SLM got me really appreciating the stream link format! I’m pretty sure Kodi supports them too. Not Plex though.

[babsonnexus]

@daldana7296

Not sure what I'm doing wrong, but I could use some ideas. The streamlinks created through this great plugin are working fine on my Shield and PC, but I get a "Connection Lost" error message and "Recording Corrupted" when I try to play through an Android phone. Any thoughts?

I don't think it's you. I'm also having a weird one on Android Mobile where the Stream Links are opening in a browser instead of opening the apps. @anizocani, @maddox, @tmm1, @eric, submitted diagnostics: f6900b08-7d96-45b6-8f74-8cff00a43dad

[babsonnexus]

@Fofer

I’m pretty sure Kodsi supports them too. Not Plex though.

I know Kodi supports Stream Files, but I haven't been able to confirm if they could actually support Stream Links. Maybe someone who has it could let me know and what would be necessary to support their setup. I don't even want to bother dusting off my Lifetime Plexpass to try integrating anything into that dumpster fire.

[babsonnexus]

@Fofer

I feel like more CDVR users should know about SLM.

@cyberskier

Maybe more than just at CDVR users.

@Fofer

Now finally with CDVR + SLM we have a single platform that can aggregate our shows and movie collection in a very personalized way.

I believe I'll make a small demo video, like less than 8 minutes, demonstrating the functionality as a general concept. You know, just adding a Movie, adding a show, doing some of the overrides, showing what happens in Channels... just kind of bare usage stuff. Then, I was also thinking about doing a write-up on Medium and Vocal, more narrative focused about the journey of trying to find and create a unified media solution that just works.

In the meantime, @maddox, how about the next "Channels Update" email highlights some of the community projects like this one, Project One-Click, EPlusTV, Pluto/Plex/Tubi, etc.... I know there is the Community Contributed Projects area on the main webpage, but I don't know how many users (existing or new) ever visit that page or saw the Mastodon post. Looks like the page could use a bit of an update, too, with a lot of great recent additions!

[cyoungers]

I'm curious if anyone else is seeing this. I add "Last Week Tonight" on MAX and generate stream links. It pulls in links for season 10 for the entire season. However it only pulls in links for season 11 to episode 16. Season 11 episode 23 is the latest episode. I don't understand why it is not populating episodes 17-23.

[babsonnexus]

@cyoungers

I don't understand why it is not populating episodes 17-23.

See: Troubleshooting / FAQ: I'm able to bookmark a Movie or Show and I know it's on a streaming service I've selected, but a Stream Link still won't generate

If you follow these steps, you'll see:

It looks like JustWatch only has the "Max on Amazon" and "Spectrum" links while missing regular "Max" links from episode 17 onward. You'll have to take it up with them as highlighted in the process above.

[Fofer]

Unfortunately the AppleTV workaround I mentioned above doesn't work with that season either since JustWatch doesn't list that service offering it. When I tried, it just assigned the same MAX links you got. The AppleTV service only offers S8.

Hopefully with our reports to JustWatch, they will fix these underlying issues.

[cyoungers]

Thanks @Fofer & @babsonnexus. I'm still getting my head around the potential of this great utility.

[cyberskier]

I'm really enjoying the new features — this feels so polished.

One thought I had while using it today was whether it would make sense (or if it is even possible) to have the search results show what services the show/movie appears on. I had somebody recommend a couple shows to me today, and say, "They're on Netflix." I just added them using SLM, but the show names were fairly generic names, and I had several options to pick from in the search results. I had to do some searching elsewhere (such as checking the release date and look up the poster art) to make sure I was picking the right ones.

[maddox]

Just a heads up for the stream link lovers out there. We added new Smart Rules to help filter your content, including rules for if TV Shows have stream links.

If you’re managing Personal Sections, these might come in handy:

DVR Pre-Release Notes

v2024.09.26.2019 • NEW: New facets for Smart Rules for TV Shows: Contains Imports, Contains Stream Links, Contains Stream Files, Number of Episodes, Number of Imports • NEW: New facets for Smart Rules for Video Groups: Contains Stream Files, Number of Videos • NEW: New facet for Movies, Episodes, and Videos: Stream File

[babsonnexus]

@cyberskier

One thought I had while using it today was whether it would make sense (or if it is even possible) to have the search results show what services the show/movie appears on.

Earlier, I said (buried in a much larger response):

@babsonnexus

Would you want an "Available on..." when the search results show up, and it says what services are hosting it? If that's the case, it is possible, but will definitely be a lot of real estate! I'd have to consider that one carefully.

I did look more into doing this, and it is still very possible, but would be a pretty big PITA. I laid some groundwork into the code in case I did decide to pull the trigger. However, I'm also concerned about processing time. Right now, results are fairly instant. To make this happen, basically, for every title, I'd have to loop through and find all its offers and then send that to html, and the webpage has to render that in its own loop. Meanwhile, it is already in a loop of the search results themselves, so it would be a loop in a loop.

I might spend some time kicking it around, but no promises on this request!

[mjitkop]

Issues with Hulu's "Only Murders in the Building" with missing episodes.

Things look fine at first:

but then:

and

I had the option "Prefer Hulu" for the whole show.

Then when I saw the missing episodes, I manually edited the show and deleted the missing episodes one by one. After that, I ran the process GET NEW EPISODES and that came back with the missing ones as shown above.

[DEBUG | 2024-09-27 09:08:38,287] - Starting new HTTPS connection (1): apis.justwatch.com:443
[DEBUG | 2024-09-27 09:08:38,518] - https://apis.justwatch.com:443 "POST /graphql HTTP/11" 200 None
    For Only Murders in the Building (2021), added S02E04
    For Only Murders in the Building (2021), added S02E05
    For Only Murders in the Building (2021), added S04E06
    For Only Murders in the Building (2021), added S04E07
    For Only Murders in the Building (2021), added S04E08
    For Only Murders in the Building (2021), added S04E09
    For Only Murders in the Building (2021), added S04E10
    For Only Murders in the Building (2021), added S05E01
    For Only Murders in the Building (2021), added S05E02
    For Only Murders in the Building (2021), added S05E03
    For Only Murders in the Building (2021), added S05E04
    For Only Murders in the Building (2021), added S05E05
    For Only Murders in the Building (2021), added S05E06
    For Only Murders in the Building (2021), added S05E07
    For Only Murders in the Building (2021), added S05E08
    For Only Murders in the Building (2021), added S05E09
    For Only Murders in the Building (2021), added S05E10

2024-09-27 09:08:38.522412:  Finished scanning for new episodes.

I ran the process GENERATE STREAMLINKS after that:

    Created: /app/channels_folder/Imports/TV/slm/Only Murders in the Building (2021)/Season 02/S02E01.strmlnk
    Created: /app/channels_folder/Imports/TV/slm/Only Murders in the Building (2021)/Season 02/S02E02.strmlnk
    Created: /app/channels_folder/Imports/TV/slm/Only Murders in the Building (2021)/Season 02/S02E03.strmlnk
    Created: /app/channels_folder/Imports/TV/slm/Only Murders in the Building (2021)/Season 02/S02E06.strmlnk
    Created: /app/channels_folder/Imports/TV/slm/Only Murders in the Building (2021)/Season 02/S02E07.strmlnk
    Created: /app/channels_folder/Imports/TV/slm/Only Murders in the Building (2021)/Season 02/S02E08.strmlnk

    Created: /app/channels_folder/Imports/TV/slm/Only Murders in the Building (2021)/Season 04/S04E01.strmlnk
    Created: /app/channels_folder/Imports/TV/slm/Only Murders in the Building (2021)/Season 04/S04E02.strmlnk
    Created: /app/channels_folder/Imports/TV/slm/Only Murders in the Building (2021)/Season 04/S04E03.strmlnk
    Created: /app/channels_folder/Imports/TV/slm/Only Murders in the Building (2021)/Season 04/S04E04.strmlnk
    Created: /app/channels_folder/Imports/TV/slm/Only Murders in the Building (2021)/Season 04/S04E05.strmlnk

2024-09-27 09:34:35.266249:  Finished creating and removing Stream Link files and directories.

2024-09-27 09:34:35.266310:  END: Finished Generating Stream Links.

[GTFan]

Nvm, wrong thread.

[babsonnexus]

@mjitkop

Issues with Hulu's "Only Murders in the Building" with missing episodes.

This is exactly the same as this post above:

[RELEASE] Stream Link Manager for Channels

See: Troubleshooting / FAQ: I'm able to bookmark a Movie or Show and I know it's on a streaming service I've selected, but a Stream Link still won't generate [image] If you follow these steps, you'll see: [image] It looks like JustWatch only has the "Max on Amazon" and "Spectrum" links while missing regular "Max" links from episode 17 onward. You'll have to take it up with them as highlighted in the process above.

Following the same directions, you'll see:

JustWatch is missing the links for the episodes you can't generate, hence SLM can do nothing. I've noticed recently some shows will have a bunch of episodes disappear for a day or two and then come back. It's something on their side, but please feel free to reach out to them through the steps outlined above and in the Troubleshooting / FAQ section.

@mjitkop

Then when I saw the missing episodes, I manually edited the show and deleted the missing episodes one by one.

You should never need to do this and I do not recommend doing so except in dire situations.

@mjitkop

After that, I ran the process GET NEW EPISODES and that came back with the missing ones as shown above.

There is no "memory" for how you set Special Actions as they are stored per episode/movie. When you deleted them, you deleted everything about them. They then came in as raw new episodes with no settings.

[Fofer]

Shower thoughts:

If a show on Netflix is removed from the service, and it’s not available on any other service, on the next nightly scan, SLM will remove it from Channels, correct? If it then later on returns to Netflix, or any other service I’m subscribed to, will it just automatically return to Channels? Assuming JustWatch updates their database, of course.

Asking so I can know what to expect when this sort of thing happens inevitably in the future. Perhaps a future update to SLM could have an alert list that informs the user about such library changes that they didn’t manually invoke?

[Fofer]

Speaking of manual changes, when edits are needed for a show already being tracked by SLM, it would be great if this page had a pulldown menu at the top, that could be applied to all episodes below. I did this on a couple of shows and it took awhile to change each and every individual episode, one pulldown at a time.

It ended up being quicker to just delete the show from SLM entirely and re-add it fresh.

For example, in this case, I'd want to change all the episodes to Amazon Prime. Just for this show, though. Prime is lower on my priority list than other streaming services.

The reason I'm asking for this is because the way SLM works, I'm not always sure what service JustWatch / SLM will assign it to, until after the .strmlnks are created. Being able to edit it quickly after the fact, would be great.

[babsonnexus]

@Fofer

If a show on Netflix is removed from the service, and it’s not available on any other service, on the next nightly scan, SLM will remove it from Channels, correct? If it then later on returns to Netflix, or any other service I’m subscribed to, will it just automatically return to Channels? Assuming JustWatch updates their database, of course.

100% correct. Also, if you unsubscribe from a service for a time, the same will apply.

@Fofer

Perhaps a future update to SLM could have an alert list that informs the user about such library changes that they didn’t manually invoke?

Already exists in the Notifications panel in the Home area:

Also get lots of info about additions, not just deletions. Last night, I got a new streaming service and some episodes of a show:

@Fofer

Speaking of manual changes, when edits are needed for a show already being tracked by SLM, it would be great if this page had a pulldown menu at the top, that could be applied to all episodes below.

This is a back-burner request. Modify works a bit differently than Add, so I've been hesitant to screw with it too much until I'm sure that the functions all work as expected during Add. I'm going to add this and the request above about seeing Streaming Services during search to the Issues area of the Github Repo as "enhancement requests" so that these types of things are being tracked somewhere visible.

[mjitkop]

@babsonnexus

This is exactly the same as this post above

Ah yes, sorry, I didn't connect the dots.

Thank you for the explanations.

I will add the missing links manually and I should be good to go.

[mjitkop]

@babsonnexus do you think it would be possible to show the bottom of the Live Process Log (While Running) window so it always shows the current actions in real time (similar to the tail command)?

Currently, once the window is filled, that's all you see while it's still working, only the first actions and there is no way to change it while it's working.

[mjitkop]

I like the NEW & UPDATED feature and I think it would be even better if there was a filter to show only movies or shows at a time.