Not had time yet to play about with the TV-Anytime feed, from a quick scan I've had there seems to be alot of files to process and join together. I'm to used to the xmltv format and radiotimes feed of 1 file containing 14days of a channels programmes.
To get this data I was using the xmltv grabber to collect my tv data from radiotime, but it took 20mins to download just the bbc channels so I wrote a piece of perl that downloads the raw data from radiotimes xmltv section and does all the work on the client pc to output xml in the xmltv format within 30secs, the xmltv grabber must have something in its code to slow it down. I then use the xmlv file with a xsl tv guide (link below) I wrote that I use to keep an eye of what favourite programmes I have coming up http://www25.brinkster.com/lakeuk/xmltv/xmltv.htm Dave ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ben O'Neill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, August 01, 2005 2:40 PM Subject: Re: [backstage] TV-Anytime: Feedback please! > Mmmm, I can't help but feel the volume of information is over the top. > I've even thought it'd be worth installing a triple store and using > that to do some knowledge "stuff". > > With my current PC-based TV guide about to expire I was thinking about > replacing that using the BBCs feeds but the Radio Time's data would > make this far far simpler ... > > What are others using the data for? > > - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
