[mythtv-users] Getting local-access stations into Schedules Direct

Nick Rout nick.rout at gmail.com
Thu Oct 29 21:38:10 UTC 2009


On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 3:38 PM,  <f-myth-users at media.mit.edu> wrote:
> None of the local community-access television stations carried by my
> cable feed have any listings in Schedules Direct---they're listed as
> LOOR003, LOOR016, etc etc but SD has no listings for them.
>
> A couple of them even have some interesting programming on (whether
> you're interested in local politics or in refeeds of things like
> certain NASA programs, etc), and have at least a week of scheduling
> listed on their own websites.  But I never think to check 'em out
> because, of course, it takes extra effort to go scan the sites, much
> less schedule them... :)
>
> So I've got two ways to proceed:
> (a) Write a tool to scrape their sites & stuff the info into the
>    same XML framework mfdb is inhaling.  Fragile but obviously
>    doable if I don't mind some grody code.  (And if anyone has
>    suggestions that beat a cheesy bash/perl script but doesn't
>    have a silly learning curve, spill... :)
> (b) Actually get them to submit their data to Tribune or whoever
>    is the upstream feeder for SD---assuming they're disciplined
>    enough to actually do so.
>
> Obviously (b) is the better long-term solution, and would help
> everybody in the area.  But how do I go about doing this?  Is it
> documented anywhere what the procedure is to ask a station to start
> submitting their data, and (the kicker) do stations have to pay any
> money to anyone to do so?  I've done some searching both generally
> and in the SD pages & forums and haven't seen anything directly
> addressing this question.

Option 3: ask if they have an xmltv feed, or persuade them to generate
one. Smaller/community stations are sometimes more amenable to this.

There are hints on writing xmltv generators on the xmltv web site.


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