Re: http://zz9.dnsq.org

["James Hoye" <james.hoye@xxxxxxx>]

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> You don't really need ADSL, just unmetered... I was running the same
> system on unmetered 56k until I got the cable modem - The only time
the
> system needs to be online is when it picks up the TV listings, and
that
> only takes a couple of minutes.

You obviously don't use The Free Internet as your ISP!!!  Why use that
clever Windows DUN?  Oh no - provide a sh1t dialler instead - just so you
can't do DOD (well easily...)  Oh, and wait while it takes up to 20
attempts
to connect!

> ....
> Homeseer has a hs.getURL command, which will return the text of the
URL
> you point it to, however when I first did this, the Homeseer function
> wasn't working, so I use a 3rd party COM component called aspHTTP from
> www.serverobjects.com (just because the component is written for use
via
> ASP doesn't mean you can't use it in vbScript or anything else which
> supports activeX).
>
> Basically, all you need to do is use one of the above methods to get
the
> text from a web page which displays a full TV-listing.  Then it's just
a
> case of parsing the text, and putting the data into the database.
>
> Sorry to be so vague!... I would usually be happy to help more, but I
> did have real problems with my ISP (funnily enough, I eventually got
> confirmation from them that I *wasn't* breaking their AUP - By it was
> touch and go for a while!).

It's alright, I wrote a COM object ages ago that wraps up wininet.dll that
allows me to get a page back from a URL.  ColdFusion has a <CFHTTP>
tag
which does the same thing.
It was the parsing I was more interested in...  I can write my own no
problem - just an issue of time :)

That said, your DB schema might be handy and save some time.

> That said and done though, I guess I *could* do an automated bi-weekly
> e-mail of the data in XML format either to this newsgroup, or to a
> select few personal e-mail addresses? (I'm not really sure on the
> legality of this - Any lawyers on the list?! - This is all data which
is
> freely available on the net, I've just correlated it).

Well, I'll post the ASP or CF code somewhere when I get around to it - or
make it available for download :)

James H


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