All sources down: refresh your showlist
One of the first things that I wanted to do with TVShows is adding more sources so it would be more robust. Previous TVShows betas only looked at ShowRSS, a wonderful service but sometimes it was off or not updated. So I added EZRSS, Hamsterpit, and a certain Yahoo! Pipe to the mix, giving a much smoother experience.
This week all four sources became unavailable. EZRSS has been three weeks completely off the grid, Hamsterpit’s service was terminated some days ago (because of the heavy load we caused them), ShowRSS is down since yesterday and Yahoo Pipes received too many requests so they are not accessible anymore.
Great.
Today a solution was needed so in a fresh start I build a quick proxy that connects to Yahoo! Pipes, processes The Pirate Bay searches and caches them so the Yahoo! request limits are respected. This is a temporal solution, but for the time being it is working kind of great and it is transparent to all users. Since only one web is checked, the response time it is much much faster. I am still searching for other alternatives though, like BitSnoop.
However, this does not solve all problems, since the EZTV has not released most of the popular shows aired in the last few days. So if you are waiting like me for Futurama, Suits, Wilfred or Louie you’ll have to wait a little more or download them manually. Other shows released by VTV are available, like Burn Notice. In more good news, Damages is back. If you find a show with no episodes, please contact with us so we can fix it.
You don’t have to do anything to update the show list, your copy of TVShows should automatically refresh the show list in a few days. But if you want this update now go to the “Add Show” window and click on the refresh button (bottom left corner).
