[Xmltv-devel] [ xmltv-Feature Requests-3135167 ] tv_grab_fi: fetch information from tvnyt.fi

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Feature Requests item #3135167, was opened at 2010-12-11 20:13
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Category: tv_grab_fi
Group: None
Status: Open
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Pekka Korpinen (pkorpine)
Assigned to: Stefan Becker (stefanb2)
Summary: tv_grab_fi: fetch information from tvnyt.fi

Initial Comment:
While visiting tvnyt.fi I noticed that its javascript uses JSON formatted data for the TV program information. Thanks to JSON, the parsing becomes a trivial task. I think it would be useful to take a look if it's worth to change the tv_grab_fi's source from telkku.com (which has become slow and awful) to tvnyt.fi.

I actually created today a simple Python script (I don't Perl, sorry) for myself that creates xmltv compliant file from tvnyt.fi's data.
  http://iki.fi/~pkorpine/proj/2010/xmltv/

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>Comment By: Per Lundberg (perlundberg)
Date: 2010-12-12 22:05

Message:
Here's a thought: if/when you are implementing support for multiple
sources, why not merge in some of the code I've written in the
tv_grab_fi_sv grabber, to make it possible to grab both Swedish and Finnish
listings at once?

Since only some of the channels are available in Swedish, you have to
resort to use the tv_grab_combiner if you want to combine Swedish listings
for the channels where possible, with Finnish listings for the other
channels. If the tv_grab_fi could do it all... setting up this kind of
setup would be simplified a lot.

Please, just ask  (perlun at gmail) if you have any questions regarding
the fi_sv grabber; you should be able to merge in code from there pretty
easily, I'd hope. (It uses the XML DOM parser to parse the HTML data, since
I find that preferable than setting up a lot of regexps.)

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Comment By: Karl Dietz (dekarl)
Date: 2010-12-12 18:34

Message:
I'd send a mail telling them that you'd like to make a program (as part of
xmltv) to use their welho tv guide on your (custom built) HTPC asking for
permission to do so and share the program.

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Comment By: Stefan Becker (stefanb2)
Date: 2010-12-12 16:42

Message:
@dekari: any suggestions how?

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Comment By: Karl Dietz (dekarl)
Date: 2010-12-12 13:06

Message:
@all: please, remember to get permission to use for each additional data
source.
@pkorpine: thanks for making your script API compatible

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Comment By: Ville Ahonen (va1210)
Date: 2010-12-12 10:18

Message:
Yes, this looks like a perfect addition to Stefan's rewrite of tv_grab_fi!
(And yes, "vapaa aika" == "recreational")

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Comment By: Stefan Becker (stefanb2)
Date: 2010-12-12 09:26

Message:
I'm currently working on a tv_grab_fi rewrite from scratch. One of the new
features I'm looking at is supporting multiple sources. I'll add tvnyt.fi
(or is it actually welho who provides this service???) to the list of
sources.

Thanks for the Python code. They have hidden getChannelPrograms.aspx very
well in the JavaScript code:-)

One good thing: the data contains a category which could be translated to
XMLTV information:
 0 - unknown
 1 - dokumentit (documentary)
 2 - draama (drama)
 3 - lapset (children)
 4 - uutiset (news)
 5 - urheilu (sports)
 6 - vapaa aika (recreational?)


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