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Website parsing error: unable to extract reactContext.

Open biocoder-frodo opened this issue 1 year ago • 2 comments

Fixes regex capture problem that prevents the JSON data from loading correctly.

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Description

After getting a correct login for my daughter's Standard plan Netflix subscription using the NFAuthentication flle, Kodi would greet me with the WebsiteParsingError: Unable to extract reactContext message. This error was already reported before here: https://github.com/CastagnaIT/plugin.video.netflix/issues/1726 https://github.com/CastagnaIT/plugin.video.netflix/issues/1711 https://github.com/CastagnaIT/plugin.video.netflix/issues/1706

I already spotted those issues because getting the NFAuthentication key login to work took a little time. https://github.com/CastagnaIT/plugin.video.netflix/wiki/Login-with-Authentication-key NFAuthentication.key generation with Firefox

I got the login working after making sure Kodi was using the plugin.video.netflix-1.23.3+matrix.1 version, by going into the Addon options and selecting this version. After realizing the login worked, I started preparing for some debugging on my LibreElec machine. I made some changes in the plugin code to log the contents of the response from the Netflix server and see why the code failed. The website returned/returns JSON data for the reactContext blob followed by </script><script>window.netflix = window.netflix || {};</script> The plugin script expects to find netflix.reactContext and netflix.falcorCache JSON array assignments inside <script> tags and those tags were causing the problem. The original regex would select including the last </script> on a line returned by the server and this would mean the JSON deserialization would fail because of the trailing script tags.

We have tested the change by watching several episodes in HD without issue and also checked that the two stream limit for the Standard plan was properly checked. The error message that was designed to handle this, showed up.

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biocoder-frodo avatar Dec 21 '24 22:12 biocoder-frodo

I got the problem WebsiteParsingError: Unable to extract reactContext. yesterday it worked well, but now nothing is working anymore.

Box: RPI3 Libreelec 12.0.2 (amv7) Kodi Nexus. App version: 1.23.3+matrix.1

Could you please reopen this case?

homebrew-hgp avatar Apr 12 '25 10:04 homebrew-hgp

@homebrew-hgp Please check https://github.com/CastagnaIT/plugin.video.netflix/issues/1732

biocoder-frodo avatar Apr 17 '25 20:04 biocoder-frodo