[mythtv-users] Schedules direct JSON information compared to XMLTV information and mythmetadatalookup

[jrh]

On Oct 2, 2014, at 4:06 PM, Gary Buhrmaster <gary.buhrmaster at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 7:10 PM, jrh <jharbestonus at gmail.com> wrote:
> ....
>> Understood regarding the metadata grabber supporting a commercial service. What could be interesting is that the raw data from Schedules Direct contains almost all the data that would be fetched by the metadata lookup and doesn't have to be 'screen scraped'.
> 
> I am confused.  All the free and commercial services have
> formal APIs (some better than others) that one can access
> (with appropriate licensing for the commercial ones).  No
> "screen scraping" required (nor, in most cases, allowed
> by the commercial sources terms of service/usage).
> 

Dopey me... I was in my tunnel vision mode and only thinking about SchedulesDirect television data and forgot completely about existing content. Understood regarding screen scraping vs. formal APIs. I wasn't sure what was under the hood. Now I know!

Regards!