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PlayOn facilities, primarily access to the download API. Includes a nice command line tool.

Latest release 20230703:

  • PlayOnAPI: features, feature, featured_image_url, service_image_url.
  • PlayOnCommand: new cmd_feature like cmd_service but for featured shows.
  • PlayOnAPI.suburl: infer _base_url from api_version if _base_url is None and api_version is provided.
  • Recording.is_downloaded: also check for a 'downloaded' tag, fallback for when the downloaded_path is empty.
  • PlayOnCommand.cmd_downloaded: add 'downloaded" tag to specified recordings.

Function main(argv=None)

Playon command line mode; see the PlayOnCommand class below.

Class PlayOnAPI(cs.service_api.HTTPServiceAPI, cs.service_api.ServiceAPI, cs.resources.MultiOpenMixin, cs.context.ContextManagerMixin)

Access to the PlayOn API.

Class PlayOnCommand(cs.cmdutils.BaseCommand)

Playon command line implementation.

Command line usage:

Usage: playon subcommand [args...]

    Environment:
      PLAYON_USER               PlayOn login name, default from $EMAIL.
      PLAYON_PASSWORD           PlayOn password.
                                This is obtained from .netrc if omitted.
      PLAYON_FILENAME_FORMAT  Format string for downloaded filenames.
                                Default: {series_prefix}{playon.Name}--{resolution}--{playon.ProviderID}--playon--{playon.ID}
      PLAYON_TAGS_DBURL         Location of state tags database.
                                Default: ~/var/playon.sqlite

    Recording specification:
      an int        The specific recording id.
      all           All known recordings.
      downloaded    Recordings already downloaded.
      expired       Recording which are no longer available.
      pending       Recordings not already downloaded.
      /regexp       Recordings whose Series or Name match the regexp,
                    case insensitive.

  Subcommands:
    account
      Report account state.
    api suburl
      GET suburl via the API, print result.
    cds suburl
      GET suburl via the content delivery API, print result.
      Example subpaths:
        content
        content/provider-name
    dl [-j jobs] [-n] [recordings...]
      Download the specified recordings, default "pending".
      -j jobs   Run this many downloads in parallel.
                The default is 2.
      -n        No download. List the specified recordings.
    downloaded recordings...
      Mark the specified recordings as downloaded and no longer pending.
    feature [feature_id]
      List features.
    help [-l] [subcommand-names...]
      Print the full help for the named subcommands,
      or for all subcommands if no names are specified.
      -l  Long help even if no subcommand-names provided.
    ls [-l] [recordings...]
      List available downloads.
      -l        Long listing: list tags below each entry.
      -o format Format string for each entry.
      Default format: {playon.ID} {playon.HumanSize} {resolution} {playon.Series} {playon.Name} {playon.ProviderID} {status:upper}
    poll ...
    q [-l] [recordings...]
      List queued recordings.
      -l        Long listing: list tags below each entry.
      -o format Format string for each entry.
      Default format: {playon.ID} {playon.Series} {playon.Name} {playon.ProviderID}
    queue [-l] [recordings...]
      List queued recordings.
      -l        Long listing: list tags below each entry.
      -o format Format string for each entry.
      Default format: {playon.ID} {playon.Series} {playon.Name} {playon.ProviderID}
    refresh [queue] [recordings]
      Update the db state from the PlayOn service.
    service [service_id]
      List services.
    shell
      Run a command prompt via cmd.Cmd using this command's subcommands.

Class PlayOnSQLTags(cs.sqltags.SQLTags, cs.tagset.BaseTagSets, cs.resources.MultiOpenMixin, cs.context.ContextManagerMixin, collections.abc.MutableMapping, collections.abc.Mapping, collections.abc.Collection, collections.abc.Sized, collections.abc.Iterable, collections.abc.Container, cs.deco.Promotable)

SQLTags subclass with PlayOn related methods.

Class Recording(cs.sqltags.SQLTagSet, cs.obj.SingletonMixin, cs.tagset.TagSet, builtins.dict, cs.dateutils.UNIXTimeMixin, cs.lex.FormatableMixin, cs.lex.FormatableFormatter, string.Formatter, cs.mappings.AttrableMappingMixin)

An SQLTagSet with knowledge about PlayOn recordings.

Release Log

Release 20230703:

  • PlayOnAPI: features, feature, featured_image_url, service_image_url.
  • PlayOnCommand: new cmd_feature like cmd_service but for featured shows.
  • PlayOnAPI.suburl: infer _base_url from api_version if _base_url is None and api_version is provided.
  • Recording.is_downloaded: also check for a 'downloaded' tag, fallback for when the downloaded_path is empty.
  • PlayOnCommand.cmd_downloaded: add 'downloaded" tag to specified recordings.

Release 20230217:

  • Move some core stuff off into cs.service_api.HTTPServiceAPI.
  • Move core Recording.is_stale() method to TagSet.is_stale(), leave override method behind.
  • Persist login tokens in a db for reuse while still fresh.
  • "playon dl": allow interrupting downloads.
  • Cleaner handling of playon.Name having a leading SNNeNN prefix.

Release 20221228:

  • PlayOnAPI.suburl_data: progress reporting, raise on bad response, upgrade JSON error warning.
  • PlayOnAPI: use a common cookie jar across API calls.
  • PlayOnCommand: new "api" and "cds" API access subcommands.
  • PlayOnCommand._refresh_sqltags_data: bugfix "expired cache" logic.
  • PlayOnCommand: new "poll" subcommand reporting the API notifications response.

Release 20220311: Bugfix criteria for refreshing the PlayOn state.

Release 20211212: Initial release.

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