Re: [Xmltv-devel] Submitting grabber for german TV Movie site

[Robert E. <rm...@gm...>]

Since it's not native Perl (not to mention the legal issues, and Germany 
seems to have some copyright laws that have caused problems before) it's 
probably best to not include it in the Sourceforge project.

Please update the XMLTV.ORG wiki with a pointer and a link to your 
grabber (maybe related projects section?)  Feel free to use the main 
XMLTV mailing lists for support.

Robert

On 5/24/2009 1:19 PM, Thiton wrote:
> Dear XMLTV developers,
>
> in the recent past, I have developed a grabber for the programme
> data of the TV Movie Clickfinder software. The programme data cover
> a wide range of german-speaking TV stations, are published 7 days
> in advance and contain much metadata, including descriptions,
> star-ratings and actor information.
> The grabber is published under GPL license and uses C++, perl,
> wget and unzip. tv_validate_grabber validates it without errors.
>
> If you are interested, I'd be happy to include this grabber to the
> XMLTV project and maintain it myself. The main concerns here are
> probably a doubtful legal status of the data source (I'm no lawyer,
> so I really don't know, but the Clickfinder files are published as
> encrypted ZIP files and I had to guess a weak password) and the 
> comparatively high dependencies on a C++ compiler and wget.
>
> The grabber is available from 
> http://swolter.sdf1.org/software/tvmovie.html
> I'll be monitoring this list for answers and look forward
> to hearing your opinion.
>
> Best regards,
>    Thiton
>