zattoo-channel-url-finder is a tool to extract the URL of a TV channel from the Zattoo, only by giving a name that resembles the name of the TV channel. It uses the python library fuzzywuzzy to achieve the fuzzy string matching.

To install zattoo-channel-url-finder you can download the latest release and run

pip install zattoo-channel-url-finder-x.y.z.tar.gz

Let's say we want to get the URL of the TV channel ARTE. We use zattoo-channel-url-finder with

zattoo-channel-url-finder arte

and get

https://zattoo.com/watch/DE_arte

as the result.

I have used the following procedure to construct the list of the channel key words CHANNEL_LIST in channel_finder.py:

First login in the browser and save the JSON containing the channel information as channels.json. Then run a beautifier program over this file und use the following:

cat channels.json | grep display | cut -d: -f2 | sed s/,//g > 1.txt
cat channels.json | grep cid | cut -d: -f2 | sed s/,//g > 2.txt
cat channels.json | grep "title" | grep '^[[:space:]]\{6\}"' | cut -d: -f2 | sed s/,//g | sed s/HD//g | sed s/" "\"/\"/g > 3.txt
paste 1.txt 2.txt 3.txt -d, | sed 's/^/[/' | sed 's/$/],/'

The result of this procedure can be used to generate the list CHANNEL_LIST. Feel free to fork this project and adopt it to your own purposes.