<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/9/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Rich West</b> <<a href="mailto:Rich.West@wesmo.com">Rich.West@wesmo.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I fear asking this after having read through the piles of email related<br>to the zap2it panic, but since the need has arisen (I can't get guide<br>data, and I expect that things will get even less stable as we approach
<br>September), I was wondering if anyone has made any efforts toward<br>scraping data off of the DirecTV site for DirecTV subscribers?<br><br></blockquote></div><br>When I log on to my DirecTV account page and go to the listings, I see a block indicating flash is needed. (I have a flash blocker turned on by default.) I think screen scraping that would be a lot more difficult than if it were just html.
<br><br>I just tried it anonymously with my zip code using Lynx (ncurses command line browser - no flash) and while I can see some listing data I can't get any sort of usable details.<br><br>The other problem, as have been previously noted, is that it's likely a violation of your contract with DirecTV to screen scrape the listings for use on some (any) other system.
<br><br>...Kevin<br>