[mythtv-users] UK TV Listings source - bleb.org
Paul Woodward
paul_woodward at fastnet.co.uk
Wed Jan 28 11:30:52 EST 2004
That looks really promising. It's a shame there's no categories in the listings. I wonder if they could be scraped (and subsequently cached) from the attached info link (see the subject at the bottom of the box).
XSLT would be really simple to use, but the listing could equally be parsed with a perl script (which could collect the categories as well).
I can't see any rules and regulations about using the data, apart from not hammering the server.
Paul
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> Ivor Hewitt wrote:
> >>He is currently after anyone who could help out creating a
> >>tv_grab_uk_bleb XMLTV grabber ...
> >>
> >
> > Why not just run an xslt translation over his xml format to create xmltv files
> > directly?
>
> I've no idea what XSLT translation is to be honest ;P
>
> To quote from his tvdevel postin:-
>
> > There are two alternatives:
> >
> > 1) A new "tv_grab_uk_bleb" is written which takes the XML available
> > on bleb.org and transcodes it into XMLTV. This could use a
> > theoretically zipped version of the current listings so that only
> > one HTTP request was required.
> >
> > or 2) A complete (perhaps compressed) XMLTV file was available -
> > perhaps generated programatically using the transcoding CGI
> > previously discussed. "tv_grab_uk_bleb" basically then downloads
> > this file.
>
> HTH
>
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