[mythtv-users] Guide Data Idea Doable or Not?

Gregg 3gemail at gmail.com
Fri Jun 22 18:16:47 UTC 2007


This may not be worth the coding, but is it possible not to house all
the guide data on the myth box and just query an exiting guide service
on demand and import the data into the database when required for
recording?

Example.  I want to record Lost, I hit guide on my myth box and it
initiates a connection to some guide data site.  I do a search for
lost and pick the episode I want. It downloads that specific data and
places it into the database, then at some specific interval it
searches again for that program every week to update time and so on.
The gist is the IP will not be banned from the site for scraping all
program data. It  just query's for the one it wants to record, and If
the user wants to search current programs the guide pops up a modified
web browser with preset location info.  The user could search and add
for as far out as the data provider allows.

-Gregg


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