[Xmltv-devel] [ xmltv-Patches-2863899 ] A new grabber: tv_grab_il

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Patches item #2863899, was opened at 2009-09-21 18:44
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Status: Open
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Priority: 5
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Submitted By: Or Cohen (lightpriest)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: A new grabber: tv_grab_il

Initial Comment:
I didn't where else to put that but here, this is a xmltv grabber for Israel.
It passed the tv_validate_grabber tests and is written working with the XMLTV packages (Writer, Get_nice, ParseOptions, etc.)

I didn't know where else to put it :)

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>Comment By: Robert Eden (rmeden)
Date: 2009-09-21 19:55

Message:
BTW.. forgot to ask the standard question... is there anything in the
target site's terms of service against scrapers?

Can you set the HTTP agent string with something like
$ua->agent("xmltv/$XMLTV::VERSION");


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Comment By: Robert Eden (rmeden)
Date: 2009-09-21 19:48

Message:
ah, I see.. you default adding channels to "no".  I think most grabbers
default to "yes".  Anyone else thing the default should be "yes" (when not
editing an old file)


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Comment By: Robert Eden (rmeden)
Date: 2009-09-21 19:45

Message:
nice.. the previous tv_grab_il was removed from the distribution last year
because the target site was experiencing "temporary maintenance" for a few
months.

It does seem to work and I've added it to CVS and the Makefile.  I assume
you're willing to be the maintainer... want me to grant you CVS
permission?

Issues:
I did a --configure and picked a few of the first channels then "none".  I
tried a grab and the XMLTV file didn't have any programs.  Is data for all
channels asked about in --configure?

I ran it again and answered "all" to add all stations.  This time I got
programs, but a lot of "use of uninitialized values in concatenation line
246" (pushing programme entries)  Maybe there some shows without a title?
 

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