tvtv.us.robots' is denied.

Thanks for the help. What doesn't make sense is that I was able to glean 30 channels (my limit) before this week without the "Access to the path 'C:\Users\Tim\AppData\Local\WebGrab+Plus\robots\tvtv.us.robots' is denied." error. Why suddenly do I get the access denied to the robots file and no updates at all?
I'll try trimming my channels to 30 and see what happens.

I shaved my list down to 30 channels. Just like I thought, I'm still getting the "access denied" error.
It seems as though tvtv.us.ini needs updating. Anyone else having issues with this site?

Attached is a copy of my tvtv.us.robots file with a txt extension so it could be uploaded. It is a read only file in my \AppData\Local\WebGrab+Plus\robots folder. This grab worked last week and not now. I haven't changed anything in between.
By the way, there is no underscore in my file name in the folder. The upload must have put that in.

I shaved my list to 10 channels, deleted the tvtv.us.robots file, ran WG, modified the robots file as attached (read only), ran WG again and still got the access denied error. If the robots file is not read only, the file gets overwritten so I know WG has access when not read only.
Thanks for helping me out. That other thread you linked is very similar and thought it would fix my issue. The extra lines in the uploaded robots file are anomalies of the upload process. They aren't in the actual file. Are you using tvtv.us successfully?

This is how I fixed it for now:
Deleted tvtv.us.robots
Deleted hot_cookies.txt
Re-ran WG with my 30 channel list.
Changed two "Disallow" to "Allow" (results shown below) in newly created tvtv.us.robots file.
User-agent: *
Allow: /tvm/
Disallow: /gn/
User-agent: WebGrab+Plus
Allow: /

and DID NOT make it read only.

Ran WG and it is pulling channels as I write. I'll post log after it finishes.

mat8861 wrote:

yes works fine fine here. As you can see my robots was created/modified and last accessed on 1 Jan 2020. Attributes is read-only.Tested also channel creation (New York lu2381d) also works fine.

I noticed you are running rev 4 of tvtv.us.ini whereas I am running rev 5
found: C:\Users\mat88\AppData\Local\WebGrab+Plus\siteini.user\USA\tvtv.us.ini -- Revision 04
vs
found: C:\Users\Tim\AppData\Local\WebGrab+Plus\tvtv.us.ini -- Revision 05
Maybe that is where our methods/results differ.

So, tvtv.us ran without the robots file being read only. Attached is the log

xdetoursx wrote:

If I update the robots file with "Allow" it automatically gets reverted back to "Disallow" when WG is run
If I change it to Read Only and run, then I get an access denied error. Access to the path 'C:\Users\XXXXX\AppData\Local\WebGrab+Plus\robots\tvtv.ca.robots' is denied.
Either way, can't get it to scrape.

This is what my working robots file looks like (.txt added so it would upload to this forum). Just noticed there is a Disallow still in there. Did you delete the hot_cookies.txt file as well. Not sure if that makes a difference or not...

Might be our OS. Mine is Windows7 Pro, EPGFreak is Windows 2019 Server. Don't know what OS xdetoursx is using.
I thought the robots file (not folder) is supposed to be read only.

mat8861 wrote:

yes works fine fine here. As you can see my robots was created/modified and last accessed on 1 Jan 2020. Attributes is read-only.Tested also channel creation (New York lu2381d) also works fine.

Matt,
I noticed your output contains items my output doesn't have although we are supposedly using the same tvtv.us.ini file.
An example is your Disney Eastern Feed:

programme start="20200719041000 +0000" stop="20200719043500 +0000" channel="Disney - Eastern Feed">
title lang="en">Jessie
sub-title lang="en">Help Not Wanted
desc lang="en">When Jessie needs some extra money for a gift, she accepts a job out of desperation.
credits>
actor>Debby Ryan
actor>Kevin Chamberlin
actor>Peyton List
/credits>
category lang="en">Sitcom
icon src="http://www.webgrabplus.com/%3Ca%20href%3D"https://cdn.tvpassport.com/image/show/480x720/68706.jpg">https://cdn.tvpassport.com/image/show/480x720/68706.jpg"/>
episode-num system="onscreen">S3 E14
rating system="US">
value>TVG
/rating>
/programme>

My output only has title, sub-title, and desc lang (example of a Disney Eastern Feed entry):

programme start="20200727025500 +0000" stop="20200727032000 +0000" channel="Disney - Eastern Feed">
title lang="en">Gabby Duran and the Unsittables
sub-title lang="en">Tailoring Swift
desc lang="en">When Gabby gets a bad review from a babysitting client, she suspects they may be up to no good.(n)
/programme>

Did you change something to extract the extra entries like category, actor, rating, etc?

Of my entire 30 channels, I don't have anything other than title, sub-title, and desc lang

Thanks again for your insight.

mat8861 wrote:

I'm using the one in siteini pack ....rev 5
https://github.com/SilentButeo2/webgrabplus-siteinipack/blob/master/site...

Another head scratcher. I'm using the unmodified ini from the siteini.pack as well. I wonder if our different output is because of our webgrab++.config.xml using a different site id?
An example of mine is:
channel update="i" site="tvtv.us" site_id="6392D/48" xmltv_id="Discovery Channel (US) - Eastern Feed">Discovery Channel (US) - Eastern Feed

Yep, using Rev 5 of the ini

thyaguster wrote:

I had the same error, it was working ok then after updating Webgrabplus it stopped working.
The solution for me was to delete robots folder, run Webgrabplus once so it creates both the folder and the file again.
Then edit robots file as instructed above and put it read-only.

Thanks for the update. I hope you noticed that my last comment was exactly one year ago. However, I found part of my issue is the tvtv.us.robots file somehow gets corrupted. It remains read only and the contents don't change but, I keep getting access denied. My fix is to delete it, make a copy of the tvtv.ca.robots, rename it tvtv.us.robots, and then make it read only. I think the problem might be the way my computer goes to sleep while accessing the file or something. Very strange.