[mythtv-users] UK TV listings

Simon Hobson linux at thehobsons.co.uk
Sat Dec 31 18:09:28 UTC 2016


Mike Perkins <mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk> wrote:

>> Schedules Direct
>> 
> Yep. Been using it 6 months so far. I get somewhere between 14 and 21 days of schedules.

They update most data on Thursday evening or Friday morning. In between they only provide changes. Channels differ in how much data they provide - I find BBC does up to 14 days (so varies between 7 or 8 days left just before fetching new data to 14 days just after) and some do 21 days.

There's a lot of "To Be Announced" entries in the raw data, I have line in my script (thanks to someone else on this list) of :
  tv_grep --output ${xmlfile2} --not --title 'To Be Announced' ${xmlfile}
which strips these out and gives much clearer listings past where the data starts running out.



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