[mythtv] Netflix -> MythTV recording script

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Dec 28, 2007, at 3:18 PM, Aaron Longson wrote:

> I didn't see anything like this and thought it'd be useful.  I  
> subscribe to netflix but only the 2 a month plan($4.99).  My queue  
> is far larger than I will ever actually receive and there are many  
> older flicks that are regularly shown on TV.  Rather than manually  
> setting up a search in MythTV, I wrote a perl script to parse the my  
> netflix rss feed and schedule recordings based on it.
>
> It downloads the netflix rss feed and for each title, it executes a  
> query against the database looking for the following conditions:
>   --movie is in the current listings
>   --movie is not in current recordings
>   --movie is not is not currently scheduled to record
>   --movie is not showing on one of the "blackout" channels
>
> Blackout channels are channels that tend to show movies only after  
> horribly mangling them(TNT, USA...).
>
>
> Testing is currently minimal, but it's a fairly simple script that  
> I've used a few times.  However, I'm also a perl novice.  ;)   
> Anyway, I hope this is useful to someone other than me.

A while back someone posted a script like this that would also remove  
the movie from the NetFlix queue if it was able to record it with  
Myth, instead. I never tried that script and I can't find it now, but  
it seems like some nice functionality to add to your script.
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