<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Also for any one with an IPhone/Itouch there's a free app tvguide which does a nice job of getting listings for freeview, sky and other channels in NZ. Not sure how they get the info, but it appears to not use a centralised server, so each IPHone must be doing a scrape of some kind.<div><br></div><div>G2</div><div> <br><div><div>On 6/01/2009, at 11:02 AM, Jason Taylor wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">looks interesting.. its written in perl<br><br>especially the imdb script <a href="http://svn.whuffy.com/index.cgi/wiki/imdb_augment_data">http://svn.whuffy.com/index.cgi/wiki/imdb_augment_data</a><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"> 2009/1/6 Dean Pemberton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dean@deanpemberton.com">dean@deanpemberton.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="Ih2E3d">Jason Taylor wrote:<br> ><br> > Also whats the legal stand point of these.... it seems like hosting a<br> > zip file might be seen as distributing where as a screen scraping is<br> > person use? not sure, not being a lawyer and all<br> ><br> </div>There are other ways.<br> If you have a DVB-S setup then you can get the information directly from<br> the incoming stream.<br> epgsnoop would be the tool to use.<br> <br> What I'd like is something like 'shepherd' which the aussies use. It<br> looks at what channels you have defined. Looks at ALL the ways of<br> getting guide data:<br> . scraping official websites<br> . scraping other websites<br> . community based guide information<br> <br> Downloads them all and uses some quite cool rules to determine the best<br> source for any given show.<br> <br> It's an awesome system as I'm sure those who have used it will agree.<br> It's what the majority of MythTV users in Aus are using I believe as it<br> has native myth database support<br> <br> I've spoken to the developers in the past and they are open to the idea<br> of a .nz branch.<br> Anyone care to have a look?<br> <br> It would mean that you could point shepherd at riven, <a href="http://epg.pvr.geek.nz" target="_blank">epg.pvr.geek.nz</a>,<br> tvnz/canwest websites, your own sat dish, and get the best of all worlds.<br> <font color="#888888"><br> <br> Dean<br> </font><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br> _______________________________________________<br> mythtvnz mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:mythtvnz@lists.linuxnut.co.nz">mythtvnz@lists.linuxnut.co.nz</a><br> <a href="http://lists.ourshack.com/mailman/listinfo/mythtvnz" target="_blank">http://lists.ourshack.com/mailman/listinfo/mythtvnz</a><br> Archives <a href="http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/mythtvnz/" target="_blank">http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/mythtvnz/</a><br> </div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>"A little rudeness and disrespect can elevate a meaningless interaction to a battle of wills and add drama to an otherwise dull day." - Calven<br> _______________________________________________<br>mythtvnz mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtvnz@lists.linuxnut.co.nz">mythtvnz@lists.linuxnut.co.nz</a><br>http://lists.ourshack.com/mailman/listinfo/mythtvnz<br>Archives http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/mythtvnz/<br></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>