[mythtv-users] New Australian XMLTV grabber

Damon Searle djsearle at netspace.net.au
Thu Dec 30 09:02:07 UTC 2004


Looks interesting, however they don't seem to have the episode names, only
the descriptions. If it did it would certainly be a lot faster to download
than the others.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-users-
> bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Daniel Sheppard
> Sent: Thursday, 30 December 2004 5:17 PM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] New Australian XMLTV grabber
> 
> Has anybody thought of doing a grabber for http://www.ourguide.com.au
> 
> They put the entire data for a day on a single page complete with
> descriptions.
> 
> For some reason their default page doesn't include the period from
> 12am-6am, but if you go through the "Display Particulars" link you can
> get the entire day.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
> > [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Ben de Luca
> > Sent: Thursday, 30 December 2004 8:42 AM
> > To: Discussion about mythtv
> > Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] New Australian XMLTV grabber
> >
> >
> >
> > > On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 05:02:07PM +1000, Paul Andreassen wrote:
> > >> This version is FIVE TIMES FASTER.  I was having trouble with my
> > >> router overflowing its NAT because the old version was
> > leaving the ip
> > >> connections open.  Its was probably also doing a DOS on
> > the web site,
> > >> although only in a small way.  It now takes 7:46 minutes instead of
> > >> 36:33 minutes.
> > >
> > > With 5 threads, isn't it DOSing their web site every time?
> >
> >
> > Its only DOSing at 3am every morning when 100 people run
> > filldatabase, a time when no one really cares if it takes 36
> > mins. Not only is it rude, but things like this is what makes
> > yahoo/ninemsn change there guide so we cant get information
> > from it any more.
> >
> > Some thing good I notices today is a xml feed from abc of the
> > guide today.
> > http://www.abc.net.au/syndication/tv_epg.xml
> >
> > We should be using this instead of nine for abc at least.
> >
> >
> > >
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