[mythtv-users] Scraping

[Nick Rout]

Rich West 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?
>
> I think I can find out the expected format for importing in to the
> database..
>   

the expected format is xmltv, which is reasonably well documented.

Take a look at shepherd for some likely looking web scraping software.

http://svn.whuffy.com/
> -Rich
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