I should have added that days running from 05:00 to 04:59 is
completely fine for me - and is typically the way that other sites
present (naturally with some variation around the precise time
depending on when they consider their new day programmes starting).
Paul
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On 3 Apr 2009, at 07:05, Paul Webster <[email protected]> wrote:
All of which I understand as a statement of how it is - but it is a
real annoyance because of the change of how it was, with "What's On."
I process TV schedlude web pages from over 100 European channels and
all have their quirks but none have the overlapped times. I have put
in a partial workaround for the overlap - but chaning a single HTTP
get into one for each programme is beyond what is feasible for my
script.
Maybe I'll take a look at the RadioTimes feed to see if it includes
both more detail (for TV) and local radio.
Paul
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On 3 Apr 2009, at 00:24, Paul Clifford <[email protected]
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We wanted to have the schedules run midnight-midnight, but as I
recall
the networks wanted programmes starting in the early hours of the
morning to be shown as part of the previous day's schedule, and we
ended up with the compromise you see on the site: midnight to
midnight
plus 5 hours.
The machine readable representations (currently .xml, .json, .yaml)
may change to midnight-midnight in the next few months as a side
effect of other changes, but you can ignore the extra 5 hours by
skipping anything where the start time is on a different date to the
one you're interested in.
You can only get the short synopsis through the schedule, but the
medium and long synopsis values can be fetched from the RDF
representations of the episode pages. If the "pid" of the episode is
b00jbkkj, the RDF will be at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00jbkkj.rdf and the three synopsis
variations will be in <po:short_synopsis>, <po:medium_synopsis>, and
<po:long_synopsis>. Unfortunately that means 1 request for a
schedule, and N subsequent requests for each episode in that
schedule,
but the medium and long synopsis strings aren't intended for use in
schedules, so they're unlikely to be added to the schedule data
views.
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 8:32 AM, Paul Webster <[email protected]> wrote:
When What's On was summarily closed I posted some thoughts to the
relevant
blog
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2008/12/whats_on_is_off.html
... none of which got a response.
So - I thought I'd try here hoping that a BBC person can help out.
One was:
Problem with new pages compared to "What's On" ... the schedules
overlap.
i.e. days start at midnight but continue until 3am
please make it midnight-midnight or start new day 05:00
As an example see:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/programmes/schedules/2009/04/03
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/programmes/schedules/2009/04/04
and another was:
Another annoying difference when compared to "What's On" - only
providing
1-2 line synopsis.
If there a modifier available to the URL (e.g. reallyfulldetails) ?
Paul Webster
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