Mario, Thanks, I know about the API but prefer the files if their going
to be maintained... its been a couple of weeks now, so suppose I better
accept the change :( I'm an old, old UNIX programmer and my tools of
choice are C and shell script - have a high level of inertia with these
new java and perl thingies... Worked out how to make the API calls with
wget, so just a matter of loading my little database - simple
update...Thanks again for the suggestion...
Terry
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mario Menti
Sent: Thursday, 5 July, 2007 14:19
To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
Subject: Re: [backstage] BBC TV and Radio 7-day listing
On 7/5/07, Flynn, Terry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Sorry if I missed any announcement - will Backstage be
continuing the TV and Radio schedules in TVAnyTime XML format? Last
update was June 21... As screen scraping the web site is illegal, this
is the only option available to many of us to get BBC schedules for
whatever purpose...
Terry
I don't know about the plans for the TV-Anytime files, but the
best way to get BBC schedule information is probably through the BBC Web
API: http://www0.rdthdo.bbc.co.uk/services/api/index.html
The API can give you query results in both TV-Anytime or a
slightly simpler XML format.
HTH,
Mario.
