Does that mean you're in? Because you're just the kind of crazy SOB who could make this work. Where there is a Man who needs to be stuck to, there is a La Quey sticking it.
On Fri, July 6, 2007 12:12 pm, Bob La Quey wrote: > I wonder if Yahoo might be a better target for scraping. > http://tv.yahoo.com/listings > > On 7/6/07, Lan Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> OK, Tcl'ers, who wants to have some FUN! There is a MythTV project >> crying >> out for Tcl. >> >> BACKGROUND >> >> MythTV is the OSS Linux-based home brew Tivo. It rocks. Historically >> Myth >> got its TV listings for the data base by screen scraping the zap2it site >> (http://www.zap2it.com/). zap2it got pissed because of all the hits by >> bots and played cat-n-mouse, changing their interface almost weekly. >> Finally zap2it caved and created zap2it labs that allowed Myth people to >> register, fill out a survey, and download XML listings for their >> region/service. It has been free. >> >> Now zap2it has announced that they're pulling that service in September. >> No offer (yet) to make it a paid service, just bye bye. The Myth users >> mailing list, which is exceptionally vapid at best, has been an >> avalanche >> of pointless hand-wringing over this. "Can't we DO something?!" >> >> THE PROJECT >> >> Yes, we can! We can write a more flexible screen scraper for zap2it, a >> better cat to play with their mouse. >> >> I'm picturing something done with Expect and the Tcl HTML add-in. Config >> files for the user's home data (zip code, channel selection, cable or >> dish, etc). And the output should be the same XML that zap2it labs has >> been providing. >> >> And flexible flexible flexible. >> >> Anyone wanna play (and, yes, Mr. Penix, I'm talkin' to _you_)? >> >> -- >> Lan Barnes >> >> SCM Analyst Linux Guy >> Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> [email protected] >> http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg >> > > -- > [email protected] > http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg > -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
