[mythtvnz] Manipulating Program Guide Information

[Nick Rout]

On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 12:15:14 +1300
Steve Hodge wrote:

> On 2/23/06, Nick Rout <nick@rout.co.nz> wrote:
> > Steve Hodge wrote:
> > > Getting category data from somewhere would be great. However I'm
> > > getting my EPG data via a DVB-S card and I wouldn't want to go back to
> > > downloading it even to get it with categories. How about a web based
> > > query service that returns the category for a particular title?
> >
> > One positive about the xmltvnz from reven.co.nz is the inclusion of
> > category metadata. This gives a nice colourful display in the myth epg
> > and the mythweb epg too.
> 
> Any idea where that data is comming from? Are they manually
> categorising titles or what?
> 
> Steve

its a scraper. take a look at, for example, s   k    y dot c  o   dot
enzed. The info is included there. Here is a sample:

Date: Thu 23 Feb 2006 13:30PM
Duration: 105 Minutes
Channel: UK TV
Genre: General Entertainment
Censorship: M
Synopsis: Second Time Around: Morse investigates the murder of an ex-Deputy Police Commissioner and the theft of a single chapter of his memoirs.
> 
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Nick Rout <nick@rout.co.nz>