[mythtv-users] tv_grab_au 2.3

Jeff_Logica jeff_logica at e-mailanywhere.com
Wed Jun 28 12:24:10 UTC 2006


>On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 21:01:11  1000 Paul Andreassen
<paulx at andreassen.com.au> wrote.
>On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 08:00 pm, Max Barry wrote:
>> Michael Immir wrote:
>> > I might get time to look at this
>>
>> In case it helps, I've had a poke around to figure out what they're
doing.
>>
>> First, you now need cookies to select any region but Sydney. The cookie
>> looks like this (using Melbourne as an example):
>>
>>  Name: 9msnTVpref
>>  Content: region=94
>>  Host: tvguide.ninemsn.com.au
>>  Path: /
>>
>> Second, the 'day' field is now coded as a big long string instead of
>> ddmmYYYY format. But the big long string is in the HTML source, so
>> should be easy enough for the script to grab.
>>
>> You can then call an URL like:
>> http://tvguide.ninemsn.com.au/todaytv/default.asp?day=(big long string)
>>
>> ... and, so long as you're either in Sydney or sending a region cookie,
>> you get a handy 302 redirect the correct page.
>>
>> Max.
>
>Something like this should work.
>
>Paul
>-- 
>

Doesn't seem to do anything for me.  I have let it run for 30 minutes, and
it doesn't seem to be doing anything, so I killed it.

Jeff.


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