[mythtv-users] POP and TinyPOP XMLTV EPG

[Derek Conniffe]

Hi Nick,

I'd say the problem is T&Cs of guide sites.  I think I'll give writing a
scraper program and XMLTV generator program (I did try to check out the
POP and TINYPOP sites themselves which put the guide into a flash type
page - I reckoned I could use the tamper data add-on in firefox to find
the source of the data but that day the sites were a bit busted).

I'll report back here if I get it working in case anyone else wants a myth
compatable EPG for these channels - my children do like them.

Derek

On Thu, May 22, 2008 5:55 pm, Nick Morrott wrote:
> .2008/5/21 Derek Conniffe <derek-mythtv at rivertower.ie>:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>>
>> Does anyone know if there is any XMLTV data available for POP & TinyPOP
>>  (UK childrens TV channels)?
>>
>
> Don't think so. This is really a question for the xmltv-users list.
>
>
>> I don't think Radiotimes carries the channels (and I don't think they
>> have some other freetoair channels either but I'm using them for BBC &
>> ITV &
>> FILM4).
>>
>
> Correct, although that doesn't stop you asking them to carry it. Email
> radio.times at bbc.co.uk and mention the XMLTV data feed.
>
>> I'm thinking about writing a "screen-scraping" interface to grab the
>> data from uk-tv-guide.com and then outputting the data as XML format
>> that can be used by mythfilldatabase - that's if no-one knows about any
>> other XMLTV feed.
>
> Do the POP channels have an offical site? Maybe you could ask them for
> the data (or scrape from there)? Digiguide supplies the data for several
> POP channels on DG-enabled listings sites (including the UK TV
> Guide site), but it's against their TOS to scrape/automate the data
> retrieval. I'm quite sure the grabber wouldn't be accepted into the XMLTV
> suite due to this, but for outputting XMLTV data the Perl libs in XMLTV
> would be  useful either way.
>
> Nick
>
>
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