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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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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