Not all the shows are retrieved / Support special episodes

[SteelViewer]

Consider the source code of the page https://dmax.de/sendungen/steel-buddies/
The dmax.py script retrieves all shows for
playertype="showPlayer"
showid="6023"

However there are more shows on the same page that are referenced by the following lines
playertype="collectionPlayer"
collectionid="steel-buddies-special-playlist"
Logically these shows won't be in the xlsx file.

Is it possible to include these too?

Cheers,

[Brawl345]

The specials on the Steel Buddies page are just regular episodes that are retrived normally through the script. See this pic for example:

The first listed special is just a regular episode from season 6. I don't know if there are any other shows with specials that behave differently. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

[SteelViewer]

You're right, most of the Specials are in fact also regular episodes.
I found two that are not part of a season, namely "Sonderschicht XXL:Teil 1" and "Sonderschicht XXL:Teil 2". They describe it as S1:F1 and S1:F2 but in fact that's not the case.

BTW, thanks a lot for this great script, it's 99% perfect.

[Brawl345]

Thanks, I'll look into it! In the meantime, a friend of mine wrote down the ID as "13466" for the XXL specials.

[SteelViewer]

Great, works fine for the XXL Specials.
Thanks again for this marvellous script.

[Brawl345]

No prob, I looked into it but didn't found a good way to do it... It has a collectionId in the source code, but you have to contact another URL and it's incompatible with the class I wrote so I think this requires more work.

[SteelViewer]

Sorry to bother you again with this anoying variance. I see today that there are plenty of small videos called "clips" that are referenced by a collectionId (collectionid="steel-buddies-clips").

I understand that it's probably a lot of work to implement this case, I just want to pass the information along.
Cheers,

[dennis-th]

For everyone who is looking for Unboxing 2: Michael packt aus!: ShowId is 16837
And thanks for the script!

[Brawl345]

Here is a list of all currently available IDs:

• dmaxde-all.txt
• hgtv-all.txt
• tlcde-all.txt

[Akamaru]

If someone is interested, I created a gist with all working ids for dmax, hgtv and tlcde. It will be updated once a week
https://gist.github.com/Akamaru/3646c47b68cccead419716f3c4a7e86e

[SteelViewer]

Excellent initiative. That makes things much easier.