Useful Columns:
1 - Title
3 - Episode
4 - Year
5 - Director
6 - Actors
17 - Genre
18 - Synopsis
20 - Date
20 - Date
21 - Start
22 - End
23 - Duration
On 7/25/05, Robert Edgar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thanks
>>TV listings data is already available
>> http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/data/7DayListingData?v=16wk
Problem with that is its an 871k zip file, it's a bit overkill as well,
makes it unusuable if we are talking about desktop applications aiming to
read a small feeds or even with automated server side processing.
>>The list of channels is in
>>http://xmltv.radiotimes.com/xmltv/channels.dat
>>And each individual channel is in (for example)
>>http://xmltv.radiotimes.com/xmltv/92.dat
Yea that's much better, I could reformat that into a webservice feed without
too much problem at all.
As you say the format is weird (especially when the url is XMLtv)...
Is there anywhere that actual explains what the fields are?
Thanks again that's useful stuff.
Rob
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Dave Cross
Sent: Monday, July 25, 2005 12:29 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [backstage] TV Listings
On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 12:01:11AM -1200, Robert Edgar wrote:
> I would love to have short TV Schedules as RSS feeds with the level of
> information used to create listing likes this one;
> http://www.bbcprime.com/asia/schedules.aspx?menu=schedules
>
> The idea would be to repackage the information to provide users
> better/convenient/useful access to the information.
> Examples: a favorites listing or a themed listing, which could be run
> from the dekstop instead of needing to find web sites
Rob,
TV listings data is already available
http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/data/7DayListingData?v=16wk
Or, if you want data that is less detailed but has better coverage (i.e. 14
days of all channels - not just BBC ones) you can get it from the Radio
Times site. The list of channels is in
http://xmltv.radiotimes.com/xmltv/channels.dat
And each individual channel is in (for example)
http://xmltv.radiotimes.com/xmltv/92.dat
Slightly weird format tho' :)
Dave...
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