On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 11:26, Joe Votour wrote: > As much as I hate to say it, if Zap2It stopped > providing the free data, then (likely) one of two > things would happen:
> 2. We'd go back to using screen scrapers (back before > the first version of MythTV that natively supported > Zap2It). This was somewhat painful, as I remember > guide downloads were taking up to 20 minutes per day, > and it was a real bandwidth hog to Zap2It (which is > why they gave us direct access in the first place). What I would really like to see if we go back to screen scrapers is the ability to use a separate one for each channel. I want to go directly to Comedy Central's web site so that I get the episode information on all the South Park reruns that often doesn't get out to the aggregators. Likewise, I would like to write one to get my local public access channel schedule from the town web site (after I pester them to publish it). Of course, if Zap2It cuts of off directly, there are plenty of other web sites (e.g., Yahoo) that republish the same information. --PC
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