RE: [TV] basic qusetion - ireland, listings, howto?

["Chris Blackwell" <chris.blackwell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If broadcasters made their schedule available in an XML format, such as
XMLTV, then there would be no need to scrape the the data from HTML pages.  

This would make listings more reliable and easier to maintain.

maybe then we would see tv listings programs becoming as common as RSS news
aggregators.

just my 2p worth :)

chris

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Flegg [mailto:andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Adrian Sill
Sent: 08 September 2004 16:42
To: tvdevel@xxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [TV] basic qusetion - ireland, listings, howto?

Interesting flash demo.

Another question is what would you like broadcasters to do to help promote &
make available their listings to data-pullers?

Ade


-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Flegg [mailto:andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Eoin Verling
Sent: 08 September 2004 17:41
To: tvdevel@xxxxxxxx
Subject: [TV] basic qusetion - ireland, listings, howto?


Hi,

new to all this, etc ... looking back through the archive, and looking for
the relevant commands, trying to get a "picture" of how things work, so bare
with me ...

As I see it (and feel free to insult me if I'm wrong!), in order to get a
program guide (or EPG as I see some call it), you need to run a script
(currently tv_grab_uk_rt from the xmltv package) that "talks" to a site
(such as bleb.org) and downloads the relevant XML formatted file locally. 

So, questions that arise from there:-

* XML and XMLTV - XML is a standard language, and XMLTV is a predefined
format, written in XML?

* tv_grab_uk_rt - is there an equivalent script written to fetch from
bleb.org? 

* Ireland - I notice there's no mention of good old RTE and other such
channels on bleb.org ... any plans to include them? Is it "not as simple

as that"? Know of any relevant links?

cheers
Eoin




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