[mythtv-users] Scraping

[Kevin Slater]

On 7/9/07, Rich West <Rich.West at wesmo.com> wrote:
>
> I fear asking this after having read through the piles of email related
> to the zap2it panic, but since the need has arisen (I can't get guide
> data, and I expect that things will get even less stable as we approach
> September), I was wondering if anyone has made any efforts toward
> scraping data off of the DirecTV site for DirecTV subscribers?
>
>
When I log on to my DirecTV account page and go to the listings, I see a
block indicating flash is needed. (I have a flash blocker turned on by
default.) I think screen scraping that would be a lot more difficult than if
it were just html.

I just tried it anonymously with my zip code using Lynx (ncurses command
line browser - no flash) and while I can see some listing data I can't get
any sort of usable details.

The other problem, as have been previously noted, is that it's likely a
violation of your contract with DirecTV to screen scrape the listings for
use on some (any) other system.

...Kevin
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