[mythtvnz] CTV (CanterburyTV) EPG scraper anyone?

[Steven Ellis]

Robin Gilks wrote:
>
>> Ok we now have permission from CTV to redistribute their EPG data. I'll
>> tidy this up in the next couple of days, and put up an icon file, but
>> for the moment can someone please test the following.
>>
>> http://www.mythtv.co.nz/epg/ctv.xml.gz
>>
>> This means we now have permission for AltTV, Triangle Auckland and CTV.
>>
>> Steve
>>
>
> I've just compared it to the CTV web site (and info I had heard "down the
> grapevine") and the data is totally different. For example I was going to
> schedule a recording of "Irish Last Night of the Proms" at 19:00 to 20:30
> but according to the XML file, that is some footy match program running
> from 19:00 to 21:00.
>
> I hope they are not trying to pull a fast one...

The info is actually scraped off their website. I'll re-run the scraper
and repost it later today.

At the moment they provide their data in a Word document, so their website
is actually easier to parse.

The nice bit is I have offical permission to do this and re-distribute the
information.

If it all appears to be Ok i'll arrange for the information to be updated
every night around 12:30


Steve