Zap2It... Argh...

[nowalmart]

Some of you know that for a while now I have been developing a web-based interface to eyeTV. The idea solution would allow me to not only schedule recordings from any machine but, more importantly, to also program in a "Season Pass"-like ability

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[bigpeteb]

There's always XMLTV, a collection of screen-scrapers for various countries. Their current one uses the Zap2It Labs, but I'm sure they will put something together to use Zap2It's free TV listings page.

[nowalmart]

Yeah. The annoying thing is that I considered using XMLTV when I first started writing the project, but decided to go with zap2it since it seemed like an unneeded step.

XMLTV does seem to have better documentation, but now I wonder if I should just wait until mid-August to decide upon a direction, in order to make sure XMLTV ends up with an acceptably alternative for US/Canada listings.

It is probably the direction I will go, but it now means an annoying pause in development, along with a rewrite of the code I have put together now.

TitanTV

[anonymous]

Does TitanTV offer something you could use?

~b

[ http://briandigital.com ]

Re: TitanTV

[nowalmart]

I am still trying to find out. They do not seem to offer an XML download, but clearly eyeTV itself is getting an XML feed from titantv.com

Easy TV Data

[mothrog]

The MythTV guys are trying to work out a service similar to zap2it labs at www.easytvdata.org. I'm hoping there's a solution, too. I don't want to go back to screen scraping.