[mythtv-users] Zap2it Labs Shutting Down?

Jay R. Ashworth jra at baylink.com
Wed Jun 20 16:10:47 UTC 2007


On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 10:22:41AM -0400, Preston Crow wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 09:30 -0400, Daniel Kristjansson wrote:
> > Another option is to get the data directly from the stations
> > themselves, this was done by some MythTV users in Sweden with
> > much success. There are fewer stations there, but there are
> > also many more MythTV users in North America who are willing
> > to do some legwork.
> 
> Yup.  I've already done that for Comedy Central, because the zap2it
> listings often lack the episode information.
> 
> It shouldn't really be that hard to get listings for all the major
> channels.  Getting the local information for networks, independent
> channels, and such is more of a challenge.  (This might be a good place
> for a bounty system--someone who is good at writing scrapers might be
> willing to code one for your favorite local channel for price.)

Well, perhaps someone needs to convince the networks to provide the
data, um, directly... in a standard format which could be centrally
aggregated...

Naaaaaaah.

Cheers,
-- jra
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