Whats going on with EPG gone?

[spotanjo3]

Why is EPG down ? And whats happening to IPTV links as well ? Will they going back ?

[markosjal]

Ditto I see EPG and IPTV have been deactivated due to violation of TOS (unspecified) . Seems strange. I guess we need a new place for this?

[LyBravos]

Je veux récupérer le mot de passe dans le lien

[sharkiller]

probably someone uploaded a DMCA stream to the list on got taken down. i use epgs from here, but the iptv list is full of sus links.

[spotanjo3]

Oh boy. I hope someone will fix EPG and bring online back soon.

[sharkiller]

GitHub has a different message for DMCA takedowns, don't think this is it.

the first message on both repositories was DMCA takedown, then for some reason it was changed.

[markosjal]

Yea but if its an ongoing struggle its not really worth it. I mean if anyone can upload something to it then that's where the problem lies. Especially people in other countries do not care about DMCA.

Probably better to more it to its own domain

[MichaelRPowell]

I am here wondering what is going on as well. I was hoping to see my changes yesterday take effect today. Curious why EPG was removed when it uses public data. Hopefully one of the maintainers can comment soon.

[markosjal]

I think this is a wonderful idea to create such a database and guide and is long overdue. I think there are a few things I must point out though.

First put "TOS" of any stream providers aside as I do not even believe that TOS stated on a stream provider's web page would even hold any water when viewing a stream directly, as you may have never accessed that page at all.

If I am a content provider Like CNN and I do not take measures to protect my stream (in other words have a stream that is encrypted or requires some sort of key or authentication), how can I say that someone viewing said stream directly is doing it in an "illegal" way? After all it is on the Internet and that very stream is linked to from my web page at cnn.com where you can watch it.

If I provide a Legitimate re-stream of a service like YouTube TV might provide ESPN to users for a fee, then the same would also seem to apply as above.

The only streams that should be getting anyone in "trouble" are the gray market streams which yes many times are difficult to distinguish from a legitimate stream but often times there are ways to tell. It may not be easy.

Now just like many people believe Kodi is all about Piracy, here we have a similar kind of issue. To date it is very difficult, or impossible to list a "kodi" device on ebay because they ASSUME (yes because they are asses) that Kodi=Piracy. However, Kodi also can be used for legitimate content like Amazon, Netflix, Paramount Plus ,etc. This "bad reputation" that Kodi has is a result of the fact that it can and has been used for piracy.

I would venture to guess that this kodi ebay example is similar to what has happened here and Github (owned by Microsoft) has taken this action to protect itself from the evils of gray market streams whether justified or not.

It is very sad if this is the case.

[Sphinxroot]

it seem to be something else .. normaly when a dmca claim temporary closed this repo .. fork was still available .. now all fork are closed as well .. only old fork from 3 years + from the old format can be found

[freearhey]

Unfortunately, we don't know any more than you do. Yesterday, after the repositories were blocked, the admins received these two emails:

[GitHub] Repository access disabled for iptv-org/epg

Access to the iptv-org/epg repository has been disabled by GitHub Staff as a result of a private information removal request. You may contact GitHub Support for more information or to appeal this decision: Contact GitHub Support

Read more about GitHub's Private Information Removal Policy here: GitHub's Private Information Removal Policy

[GitHub] Repository access disabled for iptv-org/iptv

Access to the iptv-org/iptv repository has been disabled by GitHub Staff as a result of a private information removal request. You may contact GitHub Support for more information or to appeal this decision: Contact GitHub Support

Read more about GitHub's Private Information Removal Policy here: GitHub's Private Information Removal Policy

@Daniel15 has already sent a request to GitHub for clarification.

We will let you know as soon as we hear back from them.

[Dexer125]

Let's hope this will get resolved. 🖖

[Daniel15]

If I am a content provider Like CNN and I do not take measures to protect my stream (in other words have a stream that is encrypted or requires some sort of key or authentication), how can I say that someone viewing said stream directly is doing it in an "illegal" way?

@markosjal This is exactly the same argument I've used in successful DMCA counter-claims. Below is a copy of the most recent counterclaim I submitted:

No infringing content is stored in this repository. The repository simply contains user-submitted links to publicly available video stream URLs, which to the best of our knowledge have been intentionally made publicly by the copyright holders.

Furthermore, even if the content is in violation of copyright laws, simply linking to the content is not a valid reason to submit a DMCA request. Linking does not directly infringe copyright, because no copy is made on the site providing the link. See Perfect 10, Inc. v. Google, Inc., 508 F.3d 1146, Perfect 10, Inc. v. Amazon.com, Inc., 508 F.3d 1146 (9th Cir. 2007), Flava Works, Inc v. Gunter, 689 F.3d 754 (7th Cir. 2012) and Online Policy Group v. Diebold, Inc., 337 F.Supp.2d 1195, 1202 n.12 (N.D. Cal. 2004) for prior caselaw, and https://ilt.eff.org/Copyright__Infringement_Issues.html#Linking for more information.

If any links to infringing content are found in this repo, they may be removed by sending a pull request or opening an issue.

However, in this case, it doesn't look like a DMCA takedown but instead seems to be something else. I've already created a ticket with Github to get clarification.

[Sphinxroot]

https://docs.github.com/fr/site-policy/content-removal-policies/github-private-information-removal-policy#what-about-forks-or-whats-a-fork

something is weird here

[Daniel15]

Copying this from https://github.com/orgs/iptv-org/discussions/16:

I just got a reply from GitHub, and it sounds like the repos were actually disabled due to the GitHub actions that were being used.

I can ask them if they can re-enable the repos but remove the Actions? We could just use a different CI system instead. Their message seems pretty final though 😕

Hi Daniel,

Thanks for reaching out.

Please accept our apologies, we sent an incorrect response for the actioning of your repositories that indicated they were disabled due to a violation of our Private Information Removal policy.

Your repositories were disabled following reports of conduct in violation of the following prohibition found in the GitHub Actions section of our additional product terms.

Additionally, regardless of whether an Action is using self-hosted runners, Actions should not be used for:

any activity that places a burden on our servers, where that burden is disproportionate to the benefits provided to users (for example, don't use Actions as a content delivery network or as part of a serverless application, but a low benefit Action could be ok if it’s also low burden); or

Because of the nature and volume of the prohibited activity, we will not be reinstating your repositories at this time.

If you’d like to dispute that a violation occurred, please provide additional information to show that a different decision should have been reached.

We appreciate your understanding and apologize again for the miscommunication. Please let us know if you have any questions or concerns about this notice.

Regards,
GitHub Trust & Safety

[smrtprjcts]

Hi @Daniel15
Just create a new repo and use the different CI, that's all. Am I wrong?
If the Gitlab way needs more resources.
Thanks

[joaquinito2070]

Should move to gitlab self-hosted. @freearhey @BellezaEmporium @Daniel15 @Dum4G @themak1985

[Remzi1993]

Yeah, this is the only way! Gitlab or Gitea.

[joaquinito2070]

Join if you want to our Discord server: https://discord.gg/fg8nFmfqBF

[BellezaEmporium]

On my testings @freearhey it would take more than 5 hours for at least half of the EPG XML files... It's not quite viable, and I don't know from there the slowness could be on. Maybe certain code parts are processing really slowly, I don't know.

[spotanjo3]

[Remzi1993]

Surely the main issue for everyone is the great epg's that are gone. It's no problem to make your own playlist, but if you relied on TVPassport or any of the other epg's like I did, then that's the problem.

That's indeed a problem. Unfortunately nobody cloned and made a mirror of the EPG repo before taken down.

[BellezaEmporium]

Surely the main issue for everyone is the great epg's that are gone. It's no problem to make your own playlist, but if you relied on TVPassport or any of the other epg's like I did, then that's the problem.

That's indeed a problem. Unfortunately nobody cloned and made a mirror of the EPG repo before taken down.

Ahem

[Remzi1993]

Surely the main issue for everyone is the great epg's that are gone. It's no problem to make your own playlist, but if you relied on TVPassport or any of the other epg's like I did, then that's the problem.

That's indeed a problem. Unfortunately nobody cloned and made a mirror of the EPG repo before taken down.

Ahem

Link please 😂🤣

[misar1]

Running the EPG grabber offline is easy and more flexible than the old downloads but will only work until the website I am grabbing changes,

Two questions for the developers. Are there any instructions for writing/editing the scripts? Is it done manually or do you have a script/workflow to automate the process?

[boeder9]

Lol @spotanjo3 I thought you had patience this time around 🤣

LOL, indeed but they should have let us know whats going on without not knowing whats happened. They didnt say anything but keep quiet. I know you loved their site and I do too. Now I am not certain for how long it keep going on. They should have say something.

Lol bro, the owners and contributors have been keeping us informed and updated while following up with GitHub for the past 3 weeks so I'm not sure what you're on about..again, chill, it'll get sorted..

[Dr3sdan]

Can we at least get an update of sorts?

There's so many questions being asked that no-one even bothers replying to.

[Dr3sdan]

Calm down 😅😆 There are mirrors available for both IPTV en EPG.

Also, give the maintainers some time to reply. The maintainers are also waiting for a response from GitHub.

Calm down?

I asked a question. I'm not begging here mate.

Maybe you need to calm down 😂

[freearhey]

@Daniel15 Thank you so much for your help!! Without you and the rest of the @iptv-org/core, the project definitely wouldn't have lasted this long!

[boeder9]

Woohoo..this is good news @Daniel15, thanks so much for following up with the GitHub dudes..

[RealEmreSen]

I convinced GitHub to restore the repositories, however we are no longer allowed to use Actions in these repos. We can replace it with an external CI service like CircleCI, or self-hosted Jenkins.

I have set up a Jenkins server but don't really know how to use it. Is there a tutorial for setting up Jenkins with your git repo so I can at least generate an EPG for my use-case?

[BellezaEmporium]

I convinced GitHub to restore the repositories, however we are no longer allowed to use Actions in these repos. We can replace it with an external CI service like CircleCI, or self-hosted Jenkins.

I have set up a Jenkins server but don't really know how to use it. Is there a tutorial for setting up Jenkins with your git repo so I can at least generate an EPG for my use-case?

So far here's how I've done mine :

• Added a GitHub token to my Jenkins server
• Added the GitHub + CI Skip plugins, so that it can connect to GH + that I can prevent looping the CI on each commit.
• Did a fork of iptv-org/epg
• Added a webhook so that Jenkins can ping the GH server, and the other way too.
• Created a node that pointed to the repo + added my credentials through it.
• (optional, better would be to launch directly the scripts Arhey done to load everything up, if that's your goal) Added a script that launched a python script that looped through the different sites (even if it was badly made, lol)
• Asked Jenkins to push the whole to the "master" node, so that the EPG could be refreshed.

[spotanjo3]

Hello. How is EPG doing now ? Not in the hurry but I would like to know if everything is in order or something ? Cheers to you all.

[BellezaEmporium]

Partially back as i'm taking care of a selected number of EPGs only. I'm waiting for a master node to pop off so that I can provide mine as a slave node.

[gitkobold]

Hi Daniel and others,
Months pass and I lost in the lots of info. Can we expect a link solution as it worked? Without self hosting, etc? Just download the XMLs we would like to use?
Thanks

[Desenvolvedor00]

[PopeyeTheSai10r]

https://github.com/iptv-org/epg#epg
https://github.com/iptv-org/epg#how-to-use

[spotanjo3]

How is it going ?

[BellezaEmporium]

So far most of the EPGs are regenerated. Will need to do some things in the background to make sure I get all of them + compress for usage.

[misar1]

Please clarify. Are the changes made by freearhey only temporary (This repository now contains only utilities and configurations for downloading guides yourself) or are you planning to restore daily EPG downloads alongside his utilities?

[BellezaEmporium]

What i'm doing isn't a permanent solution. It is hosted in a server that costs credits for me right now, and as of now it's running. The changes @freearhey made are temporary until we find a solution concerning this system.

[Desenvolvedor00]

I understand, hope Epg will be back up and running soon, it was very helpful Em ter., 27 de jun. de 2023 às 12:57, Ismaël Moret ***@***.***> escreveu:

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So far most of the EPGs are regenerated. Will need to do some things in the background to make sure I get all of them + compress for usage. — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#12 (reply in thread)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AXG7SS5F2PT2VDDYGPUWSZDXNL7IPANCNFSM6AAAAAAVAW77MM> . You are receiving this because you commented.Message ID: ***@***.*** com>

[GreenSnakeLinux]

I found a site that offer unlimited space and bandwidth for 7€/month: https://www.o2switch.fr/
I wondering if it is possible to install and host the utilities for EPG here ? I'll definitly need a tuto to do it.
We can share the credit that will cost with others users like they do here: https://epg.ovh/
there is a gauge to know if the funding is completed for current month.

[spotanjo3]

Very helpful. I hope that it will be up and running soon. This epg links was the best.

[boeder9]

Man, just use a paid service like IPTVBoss, well worth it. IPTV-org epgs were awesome while it lasted, unfortunately I don't think it's ever coming back.

[BellezaEmporium]

Due to the current GH Actions liftdown, yes. Doing this costs us hosting + computation time, and we are not onto this kind of subject right now. You still can use our epg-scraper and scrape the EPGs on a Linux server that crons all of the available websites every day.

[boeder9]

Due to the current GH Actions liftdown, yes. Doing this costs us hosting + computation time, and we are not onto this kind of subject right now. You still can use our epg-scraper and scrape the EPGs on a Linux server that crons all of the available websites every day.

Yeah I hear ya and I completely understand + appreciate everyone's work over the years — though I and several others were willing to financially support a migration to another host. Alas it's time to move on to other services that are easier to use for noobs like me..

[spotanjo3]

Hello. I hadn't been used this github since October. I wonder if EPG is working properly now or still not yet? Just asking. ^_^

[BellezaEmporium]

We do config updates but we do not serve EPGs anymore. Up to any user to generate them and put them into their own system.

[spotanjo3]

I understand @BellezaEmporium How do I use your config updates to generate them for my favorite IPTV on my Sony Bravia 65" Android TV? ^_^