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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/25/15 10:33 AM, John P Poet wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 8:27 AM, Dan
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<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">Hm. I actually wrote
a script to scrape the web page listing the channels
offered for free, and send me an email when it changes.
If only that page's format was structured strictly
enough that I could pull out the list of channels and
dates I could show/hide the channels as needed. Instead,
that page is obviously maintained by a human who changes
the structure frequently.<br>
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Thanks for pointing me to that site, but it's still not structured
data. Not only that, it seems to be crowdsourced, so it's likely to
be more out-of-date than Dish's site.<br>
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I think I need to wait until a channel I don't subscribe to is being
offered for free and see if the output from the receiver's
AuthChannels.xml feed changes. If so, I could periodically parse
that file and change the available channel list in Myth. (Thanks,
Jon H., for figuring out that this feed exists.)<br>
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