I
just realised that Mario Menti produced an MSN/AIM/Jabber interface to the TV
schedule data back in September - see below...
(now, if Ben & Jem had invited me to judge the
competition entries I'd have remembered... but no, not to be, I was forgotten,
thrown on the scrapheap, left to fester... grumble... grumble... mutter...
mutter.. back to my powerpoint...)
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mario Menti
Sent: 02 September 2005 20:43
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [backstage] UPDATE backstage.bbc.co.uk TV Schedule Competition
I guess you're
right "officially, but I (and many others) have been running IM bots on MSN and
AIM for years. It's true that its not officially supported, and these companies
every now and then (on purpose?) break their protocols, but it usually takes no
longer than a day or two for people to update their software (e.g. Trillian and
Gaim never stay out of action for long...).From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mario Menti
Sent: 02 September 2005 20:43
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [backstage] UPDATE backstage.bbc.co.uk TV Schedule Competition
I've quickly set up a couple more bots running the same code, since Jabber users may still be relatively few:
On MSN, add "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" to your buddies, on AIM add "bbcbackstage"
Sending any message to them will start them talking..
On 9/2/05, Duncan
Barclay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Officially you couldn't really do it on MSN, as you are only allowed to use the official MSN Messenger client. Unofficially, the protocol is really annoying to use, and documentation is limited, but it is possible. It was something I was considering doing, and may still do depending on if I get the time.
I can't comment on services like AIM and the Yahoo! messenger (and now the Google one) as I haven't tried making anything that uses them, but I might have a look into them at some time.
What you have there does look like it could be interesting.
Duncan
Mario Menti wrote:Jim,
I took your code and integrated it into some instant messaging bot code I am using. This would enable people to search the 7-day listing through their IM client..
There's a demo bot running on my jabber server - if any of you are on Jabber and want to have a peek, start a Jabber conversation with the bot - her/his/its Jabber ID is [EMAIL PROTECTED].
I have literally taken Jim's code with very little changes, so if people think this is worth persuing, there are loads of refinements and additional features I can think of... Also, other IM networks such as AIM and MSN could be supported in the same way.
If this is of interest to the competition, then even better (I will just have to find some spare time...)
Let me know what you think, cheers,
Mario.
On 9/2/05, J.P.Knight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:On Fri, 2 Sep 2005, Duncan Barclay wrote:
> I assume you haven't tried doing it in PHP then :)
No, and I didn't try doing it in Perl either. That's what CPAN is for...
;-) ;-)
Anyway, take a squint at <URL: http://conduit.lboro.ac.uk/cgi-bin/tva-search>
for a web version of my toy script. I noticed that I forgot to include
the hours in the original command line version so programs lasting a
integer number of hours appeared to have a duration of 0 minutes.
Ooops... fixed!
Jim'll
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