[mythtv-users] A tv_grab_uk_bleb grabber

[John Knottenbelt]

Hi Chris

Initially I thought that adding a day for times less than 6 o'clock would do 
it, but it turns out that some schedules start at 5:30. Unfortunately 
changing the cut off time to 05:30 doesn't work, since for some schedules 
that really is the following day.

A better approach might be to keep the running start time as you process the 
document and wrap (add a day) when you get the next start time that is less 
than last time.

If that wasn't clear check out: http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~jak97/bleb for a 
Haskell implementation (and binary) that tries this approach.

Cheers

John

On Monday 02 February 2004 10:23 pm, Chris Moore wrote:
> Hello,
>
> After several late nights, I've produced "something that works".  It
> isn't pretty.  It's barely tested.  But..
>
> Dependencies: Needs xsltproc and wget.  Both are available with Debian
> natch.
>
> Installation: I put tv_grab_uk_bleb in /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin.
> Create /usr/share/xmltv/tv_grab_uk_bleb and put bleb2xmltv.xsl in it.
> Cos I'm lazy I rm'ed tv_grab_uk and made it a symlink to the bleb version.
>
> Configuration: See the top of the script.
>
> TODO: process the parameters instead of just outputing to $6 (ahem).
> Including getting more than one days worth of data which needs to be
> cached somewhere (under /var?).  Put *all* the URLs in.
>
> I've tested it with mythfilldatabase but only bbc1/2 and itv1/2.  They
> don't appear on the program guide but I can search for stuff and it
> finds them.  Hey, every journey starts with a single step.   License:
> whatever XMLTV uses!   Thanks for this great software btw (both sets of
> developers).
>
> (sleepy) Chris Moore