RE: [backstage] BBC TV and Radio 7-day listing

2007-07-25 Thread Flynn, Terry
at 06:03:37PM +0800, Flynn, Terry wrote: 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

RE: [backstage] BBC Programme Catalogue - any APIs yet? (also IMDB api etc.)

2007-07-09 Thread Flynn, Terry
Gave Trynt a try - not impressed. Only one search was successful and that returned no data :( IMDB support tools that download a local copy of their database, keep it updated and some decent search utilities. Its pretty old (goes back to the days when Usenet was the primary distribution

RE: [backstage] BBC TV and Radio 7-day listing

2007-07-08 Thread Flynn, Terry
:03:37PM +0800, Flynn, Terry wrote: 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

RE: [backstage] BBC TV and Radio 7-day listing

2007-07-05 Thread Flynn, Terry
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

[backstage] BBC TV and Radio 7-day listing

2007-07-04 Thread Flynn, Terry
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