Updated grabber for dagenstv.com in Sweden

[petsa]

Hello!

I realized this morning that dagenstv.com changed their web layout and the grabber no longer works.

I've made a first attempt to update it and as far as I can see it now works again.

Please let me know if you find any issues.

James: can we add this to the stream?

/Peter

[petsa]

Hi again,

I just realized I had not counted for some variations to the layout. Here is a new version of the grabber that picks up all shows, but not yet the descriptions...

I need to work on this or get some help from someone.

Here is the problem:

- Some shows have additional information in their section of the page. Some voting buttons...
- I've tried to use conditional statements to take this into account and filter this away
- Now I can pick-up the Title, Start, and End times for the show but not the description
- I believe this has to do with the fact that there is no Tag following the #Description
- The Tag comes after the conditional statement

Here is the template:

<div>
<div><#START>(<#END>)</div>
<div><#TITLE></div>
<div><#DESCRIPTION> <------------ No Tag here
<z(><div><div></div><div></div></div></z)?> <------------ Here is the conditional statement
</div> <------------ And here comes the closing Tag
<div></div>
</div>

I can't figure out any other way of doing this so all help is very mucb appreciated!

/Peter

[Jucky]

Hey dude, just wanted you to know that all the work you do is highly appreciated, keep em coming!

[petsa]

Thanks

[vuego]

I've also looked into this and fail using the Z tag too.
I don't really understand why it's supposed to be <z(><td><#DESCRIPTION></td></z)?> and not <z>(<td><#DESCRIPTION></td>)?</z>.

I've come up with two different templates. One that gets all normal shows:

Start: <!-- Start
End: <div class="dm">
Tags: D

Text:
<div>
<div><#START>(<#END>)</div>
<div><#TITLE></div>
<div><#DESCRIPTION></div>

And one that gets the shows with voting buttons:

Start: <!-- Start
End: <div class="dm">
Tags: DF

Text:
<div>
<div><#START>(<#END>)</div>
<div><#TITLE></div>
<div><#DESCRIPTION><form><div>

Now to the question: How do we combine those two?

[petsa]

You got me there... I also had two different templates that I could not combine.

Actually, in the end I gave up and started to use "xmltv.exe tv_grab_se_swedb". This one works really well, and it also syncs with TVScheduler through the TV3E plugin.

With xmltv I can get both descriptions and start/end time for each show. No fancy vote buttons to take care of

/Peter

[vuego]

There's only one problem with tv_grab_se_swedb. It supports less than half the amount of channels as dagenstv.com does.

James can you confirm that a tag always needs a start and end tag like <div><#DESCRIPTION></div> and cannot have an optional end tag? Or is there a workaround?

[James]

Hi guys,

petsa's template was correct but there was a bug with the Z tags which was stopping it from working.

@vuego, think of the everything around the Z tag being removed and the regex command staying. So <z(> .... </z)?> becomes ( ... )?. The Z tags are needed to tell the parsing engine that these are regex commands. If you put them in without the Z tags, the parsing engine treats them as string matches. Like around the #END in this case.

I've made some corrections and both of the following should work:

<div>
<div><#START>(<#END>)</div>
<div><#TITLE></div>
<div><#DESCRIPTION>

<div>
<div><#START>(<#END>)</div>
<div><#TITLE></div>
<div><#DESCRIPTION><z(><div><z)*></div>

I would use the first.

[petsa]

Thanks James! Now it works again.

Can you please add the updated grabber file to the SVN stream?

/Peter

[vuego]

James please add this version to SVN since it also includes the new channels described in post #34 of the same thread.

BTW I think that the WebEPG Designer also needs to be updated to handle the new Z tag.