When I first went googling the first thing I found was xmlTVNZ, so thats what I used<br><br>Also even after hearing about <a href="http://epg.pvr.geek.nz/epg/">http://epg.pvr.geek.nz/epg/</a> there was no indication about the python script <a href="http://nice.net.nz/scripts/tv_grab_nz-py">http://nice.net.nz/scripts/tv_grab_nz-py</a><br>
<br>And then when I did install the script in a default mythbuntu install it didnt work (time out issue due to so many tv xml scripts)<br><br>Even on <a href="http://pvr.geek.nz/w/index.php/Listings#epg.pvr.geek.nz">http://pvr.geek.nz/w/index.php/Listings#epg.pvr.geek.nz</a> the first method is screen scraping... guess which one you'd try first<br>
<br>Also whats the legal stand point of these.... it seems like hosting a zip file might be seen as distributing where as a screen scraping is person use? not sure, not being a lawyer and all<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
2009/1/5 Hadley Rich <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hads@nice.net.nz">hads@nice.net.nz</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">On Monday 05 January 2009 22:44:56 Hayden Lovett wrote:<br>
> There are more detailed intructions on the wiki at <a href="http://mythkiwi.com" target="_blank">mythkiwi.com</a><br>
><br>
> There is also a control panel available for download that will configure<br>
> the xml download proceedure automatically for you. When I find the time I<br>
> am going to add xmlTVNZ as an option for obtaining the data so it will all<br>
> be setup with the click of a button (or two)<br>
<br>
</div>I'm curious as to why people use a non-free Windows web scraping application<br>
when there are other methods available.<br>
<br>
Is it that people just don't know about the other methods or is there some<br>
other reason?<br>
<br>
hads<br>
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