Follow-up to #1156. That PR found working cids (01, 08, 12 - the range
was 02-07,10,11 before) for channels previously marked [NO PUBLIC
STREAM], which is valuable, but it also reassigned the cid of every
already-known-working channel (NHK BS, BS日テレ, BS朝日, BS-TBS,
BSテレ東, BSフジ) to its neighbor's old value - a clean cyclic shift
across exactly six channels, which is what a list/list zip misaligned
by one produces, not what channel-by-channel verification produces.
Neither the old nor the new mapping carries any content-level proof
(the streams have no identifying metadata), so there's no way to tell
which is right - only that the shift itself isn't evidence of anything.
This takes only the part that's unambiguous: three cids nobody had
before, given to the three channels that had nothing. bs07 was one of
the "new" ones in #1156, but it's already BS10スターチャンネル's cid,
so WOWOWシネマ gets bs08 instead - the only other free value.
Verified each new cid resists a single flaky read (checked 4x): bs01
and bs12 came back flaky (3/4 ok) but real, bs08 came back alive (4/4).
That's consistent with how naori-test.netgenx.site behaves generally
(see check_channels.py's docstring), not a sign these three are wrong.
Replaces iptv-checker (npm + ffmpeg) with check_channels.py:
- Checks every channel in a list a PR touches, existing and new, not just
the added/changed rows - a PR editing italy.md now surfaces already-dead
channels in italy.md too, not only the one line it changed.
- Uses check_channels.py's dead/blocked/unreachable/flaky states instead
of a binary online/failed, so the summary no longer needs the "some of
these failures are geo-blocks, use your judgment" disclaimer without
telling reviewers which failures those are - blocked channels are now
named as such.
- Summary separates what the PR actually added/changed from what was
already broken in the same file, so a reviewer isn't left guessing
whether a failure is theirs to fix.
- No ffprobe pass here (kept fast for a PR gate) - anything this flags as
dead gets a second opinion from the scheduled Channel check (deep)
workflow before anyone acts on it.
Verified end to end against a simulated PR diff.
The first scheduled run of #1157's workflows failed outright: a server
started a chunked HTTP response and then hung up mid-chunk, which
urllib surfaces as http.client.IncompleteRead - a subclass of
http.client.HTTPException, not of OSError/URLError/ValueError, so
probe()'s except clause let it propagate and took the whole run down
before it wrote anything to --json, including check_channels_fast.yml's
run.jsonl.
Catch http.client.HTTPException alongside the existing exceptions and
treat it as unreachable, same as any other broken connection. Verified
against the exact exception (mocked) and against the live lists.
Builds on the idea in #1145 (a checker that maps failures back to a channel
and list, and tells a geo-blocked channel from a dead one) with a few
additions:
check_channels.py
- Standard library only, same as #1145's version.
- Adds a `disputed` state: an optional --confirm-dead pass gives ffprobe a
second opinion on anything that looks dead over HTTP, before it gets
reported as dead. This is one-directional (can only pull a verdict out
of `dead`, never push one into it) because ffprobe itself is not
reliable enough to trust in the other direction - a known-good DASH
channel needed longer than any sane per-channel budget to open while
testing this, and a header check alone had already been fooled by an
isolated media fragment sitting at a URL that looked like a live channel
(a mistake made and caught while triaging #1149/#1151 - see the
docstring for the details).
- Restructured to share one worker pool across every list in a run
instead of a fresh pool per list, which stopped small lists from paying
the same wall-clock floor as large ones; a full run across all lists
dropped from not finishing in 15 minutes to about 10.
- --json writes one record per channel per run, for building a history.
generate_dashboard.py
- Turns that history into a single self-contained docs/index.html: current
state breakdown, an alive-share trend across every run kept, a per-list
breakdown, and a searchable/filterable table of everything that is not
currently alive.
Two new scheduled workflows
- check_channels_fast.yml: every 6 hours, HTTP checks only.
- check_channels_deep.yml: every 2 days, with --confirm-dead (needs ffmpeg).
Both append to .github/checker-history/history.jsonl (pruned to 90 days),
then build and deploy the dashboard to GitHub Pages.
Corrects a mistake in the previous PR (#1151): the URL answers with
HTTP 200 and binary data, but that payload is a raw MP4 fragment
(ftyp/moov boxes), not an HLS or DASH playlist a player can open.
No working replacement was found, so removing it rather than
mis-marking it as fixed.
Follow-up to #1144.
- ERT World was renamed to ERT Cosmos. Added back under the new name,
pointed at the same ERT CDN host used by the other ERT channels
(verified HTTP 200 with a valid DASH manifest).
- Star Central Greece was returning 404 when #1144 was tested (Aug 26)
but is back up now - verified 3x with a real MP4/DASH payload, not
an error page. Restored with its original link.
Added to the existing Rチャンネル/Rakuten section: NTV News (日テレNEWS),
FNN Prime Online (FNNプライムオンライン), and MBS News (MBSニュース),
via Rakuten's official Amagi CDN (cdn-apne1/cdn-uw2-prod.tsv2.amagi.tv),
same source already used for the existing Tokyo MX channel.
Verified HTTP 200 for all three, not geo-blocked.
ERT moved its streams from ert-live.siliconweb.com to
ert-ucdn.broadpeak-aas.com. ERT News still runs on the new host, so it is
repointed rather than removed.
The other five answered 404 on three separate attempts, and I could not
find a working replacement for any of them. Removing the only radio
channel left that section empty, so the heading goes with it.
Channels that merely refused the connection are left alone, since that is
what a channel served only inside Greece looks like from outside it.
Sourced current logos for Space TV, Səhiyyə TV, ATV, MTV Azerbaijan,
5Star, Pixel TV and Virgin Media Four from iptv-org's public logo
database (imgur-hosted, cross-referenced against their channel list)
and verified each one visually before swapping it in.
Found current Commons/Wikipedia file names for logos whose old files
were renamed or superseded (TF1, 6ter, RMC Découverte, Chérie 25,
TVP1-3, İctimai TV, CStar, UTV, MBC, UBC TV, Chamber TV, Venevisión,
Sky News Australia, KVF Sjónvarp, Telenorba, ReTV), reused an
already-working duplicate row for NRJ 12 and TaiwanPlus, and verified
every replacement resolves and shows the right logo.
ITV2, ITV3, and Challenge logos were pointing at Wikimedia files that
no longer exist; restored the imgur-hosted logos these rows used
before they were switched over.
Wikimedia now rejects direct thumbnail requests for widths outside the
fixed set 20/40/60/120/250/330/500/960/1280/1920/3840px. Rounded all
remaining off-size occurrences to the nearest allowed width.
Wikimedia only serves fixed thumbnail widths (20/40/60/120/250/330/
500/960/1280/1920/3840px); 640px returns a 400 error. Switched all
occurrences to the nearest allowed size, 500px.
Fixes#1135
Chile: fix broken NTV link (403), keep existing working T13/Mega links.
Argentina: fix broken El Trece/El Nueve links, switch Canal 26 and
América to direct streams, rename IP Noticias to Argentina/12
(channel rebranded 2025-11-12, Grupo Octubre).
Cherry-picked from #1139 and #1138.
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