[mythtv-users] New Australian XMLTV grabber

Daniel Sheppard daniels at pronto.com.au
Thu Dec 30 06:17:20 UTC 2004


Has anybody thought of doing a grabber for http://www.ourguide.com.au

They put the entire data for a day on a single page complete with
descriptions.

For some reason their default page doesn't include the period from
12am-6am, but if you go through the "Display Particulars" link you can
get the entire day.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org 
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Ben de Luca
> Sent: Thursday, 30 December 2004 8:42 AM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] New Australian XMLTV grabber
> 
> 
> 
> > On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 05:02:07PM +1000, Paul Andreassen wrote:
> >> This version is FIVE TIMES FASTER.  I was having trouble with my 
> >> router overflowing its NAT because the old version was 
> leaving the ip 
> >> connections open.  Its was probably also doing a DOS on 
> the web site, 
> >> although only in a small way.  It now takes 7:46 minutes instead of
> >> 36:33 minutes.
> >
> > With 5 threads, isn't it DOSing their web site every time?
> 
> 
> Its only DOSing at 3am every morning when 100 people run 
> filldatabase, a time when no one really cares if it takes 36 
> mins. Not only is it rude, but things like this is what makes 
> yahoo/ninemsn change there guide so we cant get information 
> from it any more.
> 
> Some thing good I notices today is a xml feed from abc of the 
> guide today.
> http://www.abc.net.au/syndication/tv_epg.xml
> 
> We should be using this instead of nine for abc at least.
> 
> 
> >
> 
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