[mythtv-users] New Australian XMLTV grabber

[Paul Andreassen]

On Mon, 2004-11-08 at 21:11, Damon Searle wrote:
> If there is XMLTV for python there shouldn't be a problem, however I would
> prefer to keep it in perl, as that's what most people are used to using for
> XMLTV grabbers. I doubt I would have had so many patches and enhancements to
> my original code if I had done it in python. Also if you want to write it
> again in a new language you might as well think about breaking up the HTML
> tables a bit better than the way I did it. The way I did it by breaking it
> up into lines and picking the line number for the show attribute is pretty
> nasty, and I only did that because I was too lazy to think of something
> better at the time. Eg. if there is an extra bold tag or something in there
> it can mean the description moves to a different line - which I think is the
> problem people are having with the line 28 on some data.

Hi Damon,

Could you tell me where to find the format of the "config" file and the
"xml" file?  Or are the "config" files different for each grabber
program?  I'll have to do a search for python support for XMLTV.

Thanks
Paul