Fix: tvg-country, tvg-language, tvg-logo are missing since #6488

[cy8018]

Describe your issue

tvg-country, tvg-language, tvg-logo are missing since #6488.
And a lot of tvg-id are emptied since this update, for example in cn.m3u:

Is this by design or a bug?

Thank you.

[freearhey]

This is not a bug. Details: https:/iptv-org/iptv/discussions/6340

[cy8018]

This is not a bug. Details: #6340

@freearhey Thank you for the explanations. That is a good idea have the new API.
But there's another issue: this commit 7c524a0 not only removed the tvg-country, tvg-language, tvg-logo tags, but also have other impact:
Most (1252 out of 1471) of the tvg-id are emptied in cn.m3u. Which makes it impossible for me to link the channels to the database. I didn't check for all the files, but at least this has happened to cn.m3u

Would you please fix this? Thanks a lot.

[freearhey]

The repository now only uses ids from iptv-org/database. Most tvg-id remained the same, but unfortunately in the case of Chinese channels it is not possible to automatically pick up the correct ID. So the remaining tvg-id will have to be filled in manually, which will take some time.

Meanwhile, you can generate tvg-ids based on the channel name yourself as it was done before like so:

generate('东至影视', 'cn') => 'DongZhiYingShi.cn'

iptv/scripts/core/id.js

Lines 1 to 19 in 78190ea

	const { transliterate } = require('transliteration')
	const id = {}
	id.generate = function (name, code) {
	if (!name || !code) return null
	name = name.replace(/ *\([^)]*\) */g, '')
	name = name.replace(/ *\[[^)]*\] */g, '')
	name = name.replace(/\+/gi, 'Plus')
	name = name.replace(/[^a-z\d]+/gi, '')
	name = name.trim()
	name = transliterate(name)
	code = code.toLowerCase()
	return `${name}.${code}`
	}
	module.exports = id

or use the names themselves as an id.

[cy8018]

The repository now only uses ids from iptv-org/database. Most tvg-id remained the same, but unfortunately in the case of Chinese channels it is not possible to automatically pick up the correct ID. So the remaining tvg-id will have to be filled in manually, which will take some time.

Meanwhile, you can generate tvg-ids based on the channel name yourself as it was done before like so:

generate('东至影视', 'cn') => 'DongZhiYingShi.cn'

iptv/scripts/core/id.js

Lines 1 to 19 in 78190ea

	const { transliterate } = require('transliteration')
	const id = {}
	id.generate = function (name, code) {
	if (!name || !code) return null
	name = name.replace(/ *\([^)]*\) */g, '')
	name = name.replace(/ *\[[^)]*\] */g, '')
	name = name.replace(/\+/gi, 'Plus')
	name = name.replace(/[^a-z\d]+/gi, '')
	name = name.trim()
	name = transliterate(name)
	code = code.toLowerCase()
	return `${name}.${code}`
	}
	module.exports = id

or use the names themselves as an id.

I'd like to help on fill in the Chinese ids, can you please let me know where should I make the changes?
Is it directly in the https:/iptv-org/database/blob/master/data/channels.csv or in any other scripts?

Thanks.

[freearhey]

If you just want to specify the correct id for the Chinese channels, it's enough to edit streams/cn.m3u file itself, like so:

#EXTINF:-1 tvg-id="CCTV3.cn" status="online",CCTV-3综艺 (1080p)

To search for the correct ids, you can use https://iptv-org.github.io/

Most of the Chinese channels are already in the database, they just have an English name. For example, 影视频道 is saved as Anhui Film and Video Channel and has the id AnhuiFilmandVideoChannel.cn.

If some channel is not in the database or you find an error in its description, then yes, you can fix it directly in the channels.csv file.

[cy8018]

One question here, should the column "Name" attribute in the channels.csv be in English or in their native languages?
If it is necessary to keep a English name here, then I would suggest to add another column "native_name" in the file, which would be very useful for developers to create user friendly apps.

[freearhey]

That's a great idea! I will try to add this field to the file in the next couple of days.

[freearhey]

Field native_name added to the table: https:/iptv-org/database#channels

[cy8018]

Thank you for the notice, I will try to add/update the Chinese channels.