[mythtv-users] Looking for UK TV listings data from past 6 months

[Nick Morrott]

On 27 February 2010 23:10,  <eddie at ehuk.net> wrote:
> Yes this is going to be a *lot* of work :)  There are maybe 150 recordings.
>
> I will write a script that looks up all listings (on a selection of
> channels I define) that started within a few minutes either side of the
> start date.  So I would run e.g.
>
> ./lookupshows 1732_20091008200000.mpg
>
> and it would spit out possible candidate listings from my favourite
> channels.  I would then recognise the listing that applies from memory
> and could copy and paste output from there into a separate script which
> imports the recording with metadata required into new mythtv installation.
>
> The one thing I need that I can't find is machine readable data of
> freeview listings from the last 6 months or so.

You can get access to machine readable TV/radio listings for the BBC's
channels from the BBC Backstage site:

http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/feeds/tvradio/

Their archive goes back to mid-2005, and is in TV Anytime format.

Cheers,
Nick

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