[mythtv-users] Australian TV grabber (tv_grab_au)

[Ross]

On 4/16/05, Michael Smith <myth at immir.com> wrote:

> Blindly following various HOWTO's on myth installation lead me to
> believe that the Nine MSN tv_grab_au in the forums was perhaps the only
> one around that people were using... this may be quite far from the truth!

Google for "tv_grab_au" gave me the d1 grabber as the first hit, which
made me think that was the only one when I started looking!

> I'm not quite sure what to do about this now. Rohbag's d1.com grabber
> looks quite complete and is well written, and is *perhaps* the legally
> least dodgy option (?) --- is this what most people are using now?

The big drawback with the d1 grabber is that there are no program
descriptions. The ninemsn grabber has this, and makes it a lot nicer
IMHO. The d1 grabber has been unreliable at times too, and it doesn't
have data for all areas, IIRC.

> If there is sufficient interest in an updated Nine MSN grabber I'll
> consider finishing it off and least making it a functional replacement
> for the forum version (*). 

That would be nice :)

> I recently noticed that requests for pages to
> Nine MSN in the old script go through 4 or more redirections, slowing
> down things substantially --- it is easy to get around this however (of
> course, whether it is *polite* to spoof MSID hashes on URLs is another
> matter entirely).

Does it really matter? Using their data isn't real polite in the first place.

> Thoughts?

I'm using a ninemsn grabber with a modification date of 21 Dec 2004
which has a few updates and works a lot better than the old one posted
on the list in November. Let me know off the list if you'd like a
copy. I suspect that there are even more recent versions floating
around out there somewhere.

Thanks for the work so far,

Ross