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Follow me on http://twitter.com/mpelembe On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 9:27 PM, Andy <stude.l...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi guys > > Quick question. Anyone know if there is a way to search /programmes > for a programme of a certain name preferably with a result in XML. > > The search box at the top returns results from the entire BBC and not > just /programmes. Selecting "TV and Radio Programmes" returns > individual episodes, and as it's in HTML it would require screen > scrapping. > > What I'm looking for is a way of sending a query such as "Top Gear" > and getting back "b006mj59" and preferably the name of the programme > incase of partial matches. > > Of course it's possible to spider data from > http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/a-z/by/[LETTER]/all but that would > require Screen Scrapping and 27 queries (to check for matches that > aren't at the begining of the title). But something more efficent > would be good. > > Thanks > Andy > > -- > Computers are like air conditioners. Both stop working, if you open > windows. > -- Adam Heath > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please > visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > Unofficial list archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ >
