Atlas Metabroadcast Grabber

[pbathuk]

Hi,

I would just like to say how much I adore this program and use it every day (well the windows scheduler uses the program every day but file it creates is used on the EPG everyday).

I was just wondering with the recent changes to the Radio times feed and the loss currently of a few features (namely Film genre and star rating) how hard would it be to grab the data directly from atlas metabroadcast? I am unsure how it is done so it could be a naive question.

Cheers

Phil

[alanbirtles]

it would certainly be possible but I dont have time to do it myself

[pbathuk]

Could you point me towards any resource where I could possibly learn how the grabber works and interacts with your program so that I could look at building a grabber myself. I will have to speak to Atlas as well as from what I read on their site you have I use an api key.

Cheers

Phil

[alanbirtles]

see http://www.birtles.org.uk/xmltv/wiki/in ... ng_Scripts

[pbathuk]

Hi Alan,

Thanks for the info. I have looked through it and although its starting to make sense I seem to be getting stuck.

I unfortunately can't link directly to the Atlas data as you need a license & API which I don't want to setup for obvious reasons (cost) however I thought I would have a look through the current UK_RT grabber to see if I could add some of the lost features back in (i.e. Film: etc) I have looked through the script and get to

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UK_RT.ProcessPrograms(grabber,channel.ID,page,IgnoreTBA)

point and can't seem to figure out what file / function it is using. I have searched through every file in the XMLTV GUI folder but can't find the ProcessPrograms call.

Any help is gratefully received

Cheers

Phil

[alanbirtles]

the radio times grabber is implemented inside the program not in a script.

[pbathuk]

Ah that will explain why I could not find anything on it.

Will just have to wait I guess until the new model is implemented in the program.

I had a look at possibly paying for Digiguide but with that I lose all the season & episode numbers so its one or the other it seems.

Cheers