grabber for Croatia

[pirlone]

hi all!

this is the first time i'm using WebEPG and must say it's great plugin.

untill now i used tvxb for getting my tvguide, but specific country .ini files hardly get updated (ie: Italy, i'm living on a border so watching italian channels a lot), so i'm trying with webepg.

the problem is there is no grabber for Croatia (local name: Hrvatska) yet. I can get my local listings from http://tvprofil.net/index.php and it's workin ok because there is an option to d/l xml files directly from that site (ie: http://tvprofil.net/xmltv/data/htv1....profil.net.xml for HTV1 channel) and just import them into tvguide.xml with !xmltvimport command of tvxb.

now, is there a way to import tvguide.xml file i get with tvxb into tvguide.xml file i get with WebEPG? I just want to concatenate those two files. or, even better, to add Croatian grabber into WebEPG for national channels (HTV1, HTV2, RTL TV, NOVA)?

tia,
pirlone

[pirlone]

so there is no way to import some other tvguide.xml into guide that WebEPG makes?

rgs,
pirlone

[Dadeo]

I use WebEPG for most of my channels, but I also use TVXB for two others that I haven't got working in WebEPG yet. I run WebEPG, then let MediaPortal update the TV database (TV Guide). Then I run TVXB and let it update again.

It doesn't overwrite the data I already have. It just adds data for the new channels when I run TVXB.

I don't know if that helps solve your problem or not?

[pirlone]

this could be workaround, but i like to have fresh listings all the time, updated once a day, because programming of stations in my country tend to change on daily basis.

this is the reason why i checked option for delete old programming while importing new. so this method isn't really an option for me

for now i manually merge the two tvguides, but it isn't handy and i'd like to do this automatically.

rgs,
pirlone

[James]

Hi pirlone,

WebEPG supports downloading data in xml format. You can write a grabber file for your site.

See this thread for more details: http://forum.team-mediaportal.com/gr...5.html?t=22965

/James

[pirlone]

Hi James,

I'm trying what you suggested, but having an error.

This is grabber for xml file

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Grabber>
<Info availableDays="7" timezone="W. Europe Standard Time" version="2.1.0" />
<Channels>
<Channel id="HTV1" siteId="htv1.hr" />
<Channel id="HTV2" siteId="htv2.hr" />
<Channel id="RTL" siteId="rtl.hr" />
<Channel id="NOVA" siteId="nova.hr" />
</Channels>
<Listing type="Xml">
<Site url="http://tvprofil.net/xmltv/data/[ID]/weekly_[ID]_tvprofil.net.xml" post="" external="false" encoding="" delay="2000" />
<Xml xpath="//programme" channel="">
<Fields>
<Field name="#START" xmlname="start" />
<Field name="#END" xmlname="end" />
<Field name="#TITLE" xmlname="title" />
<Field name="#SUBTITLE" xmlname="subtitle" />
<Field name="#DESCRIPTION" xmlname="desc" />
<Field name="#GENRE" xmlname="type" />
</Fields>
</Xml>
</Listing>
</Grabber>

and this is error i'm getting:

2008-01-13 14:17:46.453125 [ERROR][1]: Parsing error #START : 20080113011500

this is an example how xml file looks when i grab it with tvxb:

<programme channel="htv1.hr" start="20080114231500" stop="20080115000000">
<title>Na rubu znanosti: Jeremy Narby</title>
<desc>kozmička zmija i podrijetlo znanja 1. dio</desc>
<premiere />
</programme>

what could be wrong here?

tia,
pirlone

[James]

You need to use #STARTXMLTV and #ENDXMLTV.

Sorry these weren't in the wiki, I have updated it now.

[EDIT] The end xmlname is "stop" in this case

[pirlone]

great! it works now

i have only one little problem left with proper encoding.

ie, with webEPG i get:

<programme start="20080113180500" stop="20080113191500" channel="HTV1-HTV1">
<title>Tri zaviÄaja, dokumentarni film</title>
<category>dokumentarni</category>
</programme>

while with tvxb i get correctly my localized country letters, how it should be:

<programme start="20080113180500" stop="20080113191500" channel="HTV1-HTV1">
<title>Tri zavičaja, dokumentarni film</title>
<category>dokumentarni</category>
</programme>

(hint: take a look at word zavičaja in programme title)

there are few more localized letters like that (accented c,z,s,...)

tia,
pirlone

[James]

Ok.

WebEPG tries to auto detect the encoding type. However, I designed it to auto detect for HTML pages. So I think it is not doing it correctly here.

Provide the encoding= string in your file and hopefully it will work. When I view the file in firefox it says the encoding is "Unicode utf-8". So hopefully encoding="utf-8" will work.

[pirlone]

unfortunatly it won't work.

as you can see from my previous post, I'm already using this encoding in my grabber file: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> and my specific country letters doesn't show.
those letters are: čćšžđ and capitals ČĆŠŽĐ

rgs,
pirlone