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I never got the original message, so I apologize for replying a few
levels down. I have a few critiques.<br>
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<u>IMDB grabber</u><br>
Don't use this. IMDB has made it known that you are not to use
programs to scrape their site. If you must use IMDB data, they make
their entire database available for download and local processing.<br>
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<u>TVRage grabber</u><br>
While TVRage doesn't explicitly forbid scrapers, you shouldn't do it.
They spent the time to make a nice API available for you to use instead.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://tvrage.com/infocenter.php?go=view&mid=7#vq35">http://tvrage.com/infocenter.php?go=view&mid=7#vq35</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://services.tvrage.com/">http://services.tvrage.com/</a><br>
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<u>MythVideo grabbers</u><br>
MythVideo currently provides two additional grabbers for TheTVDB.com
and TheMovieDB.org that you can use.<br>
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<u>Database access</u><br>
Right now, you require the user to supply their access credentials.
Ideally you would parse ~/.mythtv/config.xml for this information.<br>
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<u>Language</u><br>
While this is your own program, and you're free to do as you please, I
would highly suggest using a language other than Bash. MythTV bindings
have been written for both the Perl and Python languages, which will
process the config.xml for you. Those languages can much more easily
handle string processing, sql access, and provide automated parsing of
markup languages like HTML and XML.<br>
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