[mythtv] download and insert listing ??

[Jeff Thompson]

Wachir, DataDirect is different from the other "grabbers" in the sense 
that grabbers typically scrape web pages to obtain listing information. 
Tribune Media Services offers the DataDirect web service and provides 
the data in XML format as a SOAP response.

The DataDirect URL that is used in the web services call is embedded in 
the mythtv program libs/libmythtv/datadirect.cpp.

If you're looking to provide your own schedule data in DataDirect 
format, then I suggest that you head over to http://labs.zap2it.com and 
review the specifications for the DataDirect web service and the 
response document that is returned for the download request.

Hope that helps,

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Jeff

Wachir D. wrote:

>Thanks for you reply. Since I'm a very new beginner, can you please
>correct me if I'm wrong here.
>
>Grabber, as I understand, is a program to grab the output and format
>it into xmltv format? How can I find more info on how to write it? Do
>you have any suggestion?
>After I format the data to xmltv format, how can I insert those data to db?
>
>Where does mythtv store ftp's url information for datadirect,  anyone know?
>
>Thank you very very much.
>
>Wachir.
>
>
>On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 20:39:28 +1100, Hamish Moffatt <hamish at cloud.net.au> wrote:
>  
>
>>On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 11:16:46PM -0800, Wachir D. wrote:
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>>>  If I have another source with all channel lines up, programs
>>>listing, and the provider  provides ftp account for me as for download
>>>method. I think I maybe able to re-use the way datadirect use to
>>>download and insert all program guides to mysql db. Just that I don't
>>>exactly know where to start and look for the correct portion of code
>>>(Because there're a a lot of source files). I'm just a new beginner
>>>trying to make this work, and I'll be soooo happy. Could you please
>>>point me towards way to achieving this? Thanks a lot in advance :)
>>>      
>>>
>>It might be easier to write a grabber that fetches the data and produces
>>XMLTV output..
>>
>>Hamish
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