[mythtv-users] New Australian XMLTV grabber

David Whyte david.whyte at gmail.com
Mon Nov 8 09:52:06 UTC 2004


I am not the biggest fan of this screen scraping lark.  That said, I
wonder if you guys have seen the http://www.YourTV.com.au website. 
That is what I use to read the TV guide online and it seems plentiful
for a EPG Guide.

Dave - just providing another possible source.


On Mon, 8 Nov 2004 20:37:42 +1100, Ben de Luca <bend at bedel.mine.nu> wrote:
> What would be a small fee? and who would we buy it off. The information
> is copyrighted.
> 
> I cant believe that the SBS and ABC dont release there data though!.
> Some one should write them.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 08/11/2004, at 6:59 PM, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 06:14:00PM +1100, Dave wrote:
> >> On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 17:49 +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> >>> Even better if we could have one person fetch (ie rip / steal) the
> >>> data
> >>> and then share the XMLTV data with everyone else.
> >>
> >> One person would be grabbing an awful lot of data if they were to get
> >> every region and fta + pay etc.
> >
> > Well, one person per region per channel type for example.
> >
> >> Perhaps this could be solved using P2P?? I've never really used p2p,
> >> but
> >> I get the feeling you could probably build some sort of de-centralised
> >> network where you can search for guides, maby by region-id, if you
> >> find
> >> one, great, otherwise you grab it with the grabber and then host it
> >> for
> >> others to download. Thats pretty-much how p2p works isnt it?
> >
> > That could work. You might accept someone else's data if it's less than
> > 12 hours old, else fetch your own, or similar. If you do a fetch, you
> > still have to get all data for your region or your channel type, as
> > nobody is going to have partial data. Unless you consider FTA is a
> > subset of Foxtel etc.
> >
> >> Free is always better, but yeah, if it was reliable, complete data
> >> straigh from hww or simillar, I'd consider paying a small fee.
> >
> > I think a small fee would be acceptable; certainly better than getting
> > incomplete/unreliable data, or having to write a new ripper every few
> > months (until you run out of sources)!
> >
> > Hamish
> > --
> > Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish at debian.org> <hamish at cloud.net.au>
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