Unable to download some iView programs: KeyError

Seems that some programs on iView (ABC News QLD and 7:30) will not download. Looks like they've stopped adding these to a play list, so it's broken the lookup for the HLS URL.

Seems to be hit and miss - some download, others don't.

Here's what happens:

~/webdl $ ./autograbber-cron.sh /mnt/dvr/7\:30/
INFO git pull --ff-only
Already up-to-date.
INFO .virtualenv/bin/activate
INFO Running autograbber
INFO Processing directory: /mnt/dvr/7:30
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./autograbber.py", line 114, in <module>
    run()
  File "./autograbber.py", line 111, in <lambda>
    run = lambda: process_dirs(sys.argv[1:])
  File "./autograbber.py", line 97, in process_dirs
    process_one_dir(download_dir, pattern_filename)
  File "./autograbber.py", line 69, in process_one_dir
    match(download_list, node, search)
  File "./autograbber.py", line 59, in match
    match(download_list, child, pattern, count+1)
  File "./autograbber.py", line 59, in match
    match(download_list, child, pattern, count+1)
  File "./autograbber.py", line 59, in match
    match(download_list, child, pattern, count+1)
  File "./autograbber.py", line 59, in match
    match(download_list, child, pattern, count+1)
  File "./autograbber.py", line 59, in match
    match(download_list, child, pattern, count+1)
  File "./autograbber.py", line 47, in match
    if node.download():
  File "/home/pi/webdl/iview.py", line 56, in download
    video_url = self.find_hls_url(info["playlist"])
KeyError: 'playlist'

The info dict seems to only contain:

dict_keys(['channel', 'expireDate', 'availability', 'keywords', 'related', 'captions', 'channelTitle', 'episodeHouseNumber', 'thumbnail', 'href', 'pubDate', 'showID', 'statusMessage', 'title', 'share', 'categories', 'transmitChannel', 'seriesTitle', 'duration', 'episodeCount', 'seriesHouseNumber', 'label', 'description', 'transmitDate'])

I might try and debug this myself if I can (am not familiar with how this works), but figured I'd open an issue as well.

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