[mythtv-users] zap2it pages empty: no information

[Shane Hetzel]

Zap2it has changed their page format for the first time in 6 months or so,
and this time it looks like the XMLTV people aren't going to update
tv_grab_na to accomodate. On the upside, the new script tv_grab_na_dd was
developed in cooperation with Zap2it, and appears to download the data in a
more "pure" data format (I don't know the specifics) rather than scraping
hundreds of HTML files. It's much easier on their servers, although they do
ask that you fill out a survey every quarter.

There is currently a discussion going on this mailing list under the
Subject: "Failed to get TV listings". More help is avilable there, too.

-Shane


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Colannino" <email2jamez at dslextreme.com>
To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 2:12 PM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] zap2it pages empty: no information


> Matthew Daubenspeck wrote:
>
> >On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 11:46:16AM -0700, James Colannino wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Is it just me, or is XMLTV not working?  Here's what happens when I try
> >>to run mythfilldatabase:
> >>
> >>zap2it format looks ok, but no programs found (no available data yet?)
> >>unretry-able error reading schedule for 2004-05-22 for station[...]
> >>
> >>It does the exact same thing for every single station.  Has anyone else
> >>had similiar problems?
> >>
> >>
> >
> >I have the identical problem here...
> >
> >
>
> Well, judging from previous posts, I've determined that this is already
> a commonly-known problem.  Anyone have any guesses as to how long before
> 0.15 is released? :)
>
> James
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