[mythtv-users] Australian XMLTV grabbers
William Uther
willu.mailingLists at cse.unsw.edu.au
Sun Apr 10 13:52:21 UTC 2005
On 10/04/2005, at 10:00 PM, mythtv-users-request at mythtv.org wrote:
> Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2005 19:23:08 +1000
> From: Phill Edwards <philledwards at gmail.com>
>
>> http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~willu/xmltv/
>>
>> The reason for this page is that I've just
>> finished a new grabber (WARNING: untested as yet). It is available
>> from that page.
>>
>> The new grabber uses the Australian Community-based TV Guide data at
>> minnie.tuhs.org. More information is available at the page above.
>
> Will - just want to say a BIG thank you from all us Aussies for doing
> this.
You really should thank Warren Toomey who runs the guide. My grabber
just concatenates the data his system returns. And he has been *very*
prompt in fixing any issues I've found.
Oh, Warren also set up this page today:
http://minnie.tuhs.org/twiki/bin/view/TVGuide/OverView
I've added that link off my page.
> I'm going to give this a go 1st chance I get.
I should re-emphasise that I haven't tested this myself yet! I've
eyeballed the XML, but not fed it into myth (housemates were using the
box :). I suspect there may be some issues with XML quoting of
apostrophes and ampersands - the XML generated is correct, but it isn't
exactly normal to use ' as the quote string instead of '.
Also some of their program descriptions are truncated. It is a problem
in their data, not my grabber. I haven't gone through and fixed their
data myself yet.
Cheers,
Will :-}
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Email: willu at cse.unsw.edu.au University of New South Wales
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