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Update freeview.co.uk: fix 403 on program details #3292

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freeview.co.uk: send browser User-Agent for program details
ToRvaLDz Oct 1, 2026
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freeview.co.uk: share HEADERS with channels()
ToRvaLDz Oct 5, 2026
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11 changes: 9 additions & 2 deletions sites/freeview.co.uk/freeview.co.uk.config.js
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Expand Up @@ -5,6 +5,11 @@ const parseDuration = require('parse-duration').default

dayjs.extend(utc)

const HEADERS = {
'User-Agent':
'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/143.0.0.0 Safari/537.36'
}

module.exports = {
site: 'freeview.co.uk',
days: 2,
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -41,7 +46,9 @@ module.exports = {
for (let networkId = 64257; networkId <= 64425; networkId++) { // loop through all valid networkIds starting from 64257 (Greater London) to 64425 (Belfast) to ensure we can get all the channels available on freeview
console.log(networkId)
const data = await axios
.get(`https://www.freeview.co.uk/api/tv-guide?nid=${networkId}&start=${startTimestamp}`)
.get(`https://www.freeview.co.uk/api/tv-guide?nid=${networkId}&start=${startTimestamp}`, {
headers: HEADERS
})
.then(r => r.data)
.catch(console.log)

Expand Down Expand Up @@ -85,7 +92,7 @@ function parseItems(content, channel) {
async function loadProgramDetails(item) {
const url = `https://www.freeview.co.uk/api/program?pid=${item.program_id}&start_time=${item.start_time}&duration=${item.duration}`
const data = await axios
.get(url)
.get(url, { headers: HEADERS })
.then(r => {
const programs = r?.data?.data?.programs
return Array.isArray(programs) && programs.length > 0 ? programs[0] : {}
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