RE: Automatic TV listings: Was RE: http://zz9.dnsq.org

["Stuart Whyte" <lists@xxxxxxx>]

Ive been having a look at the fetch.log file from digiguide, and it looks like each channel is a seperate file.  Does anyone know where these files go after fetch.exe is finished?

 

These files are not plain text though :-(

 

S.

-----Original Message-----
From: Colin Bradford [mailto:colin@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 26 January 2002 11:00
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxxSubject: Automatic TV listings: Was RE: [ukha_d] http://zz9.dnsq.org

On
Fri,
25 Jan 2002, Keith Doxey wrote:
> I was working on a similar idea
last
year and had just about perfected the
> script that would process the
HTML
grabbed from Ananova when the b*******
> redisigned the site and
TOTALLY
stuffed my script.
> 
> I havent had time to play with the idea
anymore but I remember at the time
> having concerns about the server
logs
picking up on "automated" hits to grab
> pages.
> 
> If
only
there was a legitimate way to get this info.

I've been pondering
this as
well. I've got a version that screenscrapes 
from Digiguide, but I'm
also
concerned about being spotted in the 
logs...

> Your idea of
an XML
format could be one way to go, but wouldnt a simple CSV
> file in an
agreed format take up much less bandwidth. It would also mean
> that
people could import it directly into Access, SQL, MySQL, Excel etc
>
without having to do any processing.
> 
> Once they had it in a
database they can search and retrieve the data anyway
> they
like.

I'm wondering about approaching Digiguide, and asking if
they'd add
an 
XML version of their database for subscribers. I much prefer XML
over
CSV because if the format changes then you don't need to rewrite the
code that uploads it into the database - also, you don't have problems
with whether text strings are enclosed in quotes or not, text strings
including new lines etc.

I suspect that Digiguide would want to
know
how many people would 
subscribe before they committed to doing
anything. So,
what are the 
groups views on
this?

Cheers,

Colin.

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