[29.11.05] WebEPG 0.2.0 update on website (3 Viewers)

[mowog]

try D1..it has title, descriptions and category for each program...

I've been using the D1 data for a while, but it's show descriptions mostly equate to "(G)" (being the show's rating), and often it has missing genres too. The Yahoo data actually has accurate show-by-show descriptions, which I was hoping to get into MP.

The only other Australian source I'm aware of (other than ninemsn, which is too slow to scrape) is the tvguide.org.au project -- is there an existing WebEPG config to grab their data, or should I look at writing one?

 

[James]

yep its a rate limit on Yahoo.

Put: <entry name="GrabDelay">5000</entry> in the listings section of the au_tv_yahoo_com.xml file.

This is a delay between each page request in ms. So 5000 is 5 seconds, will slow it down a little but seems to work for me here. The current program default is 1 second.

Cheers,

/James

 

[thechad]

http://www.ourguide.com.au/ appears to have some good listings with descriptions and should be better than D1 in Australia.

 

[Artman]

It seems there's one channel missing from the dutch grabber which is Veronica. So I updated the grabber.xml file and the channels.xml file. I hope James will update these into the new version of WebEPG.

It's a great program btw...

You can find the files here: http://members.chello.nl/a.tom/webepg/webepg.zip

 

[raf]

I've got WebEPG running using Yahoo for Sydney however all channels except 10 are a day off, the only reason I can see is that 10 had a program starting at 12am on the other channels it moves them a day out because it doesn't see a start of a day until the next day.

Any solutions?

TIA

 

[casimir666]

Hi Casimir,

Thanks for putting the channels into the FR grabber. However, would you mind using the channel ID as described in my post above and putting the channel names in the channels.xml using the provided program WebEPG-channels. This will save me a great deal of work, were I may make mistakes, because I don't know about the channels you get in france.

Hi James,
I have updated my config file the way you want You can download it from here :

http://tibrium.neuf.fr/webepg/WebEPG_France.rar

 

[raf]

I've done it again after midnight to get the programs starting at the 7th August and the 7th has no data and all of the 7th's programs appear on the 8th because no programs started at 12am

 

[Khris]

Please excuse my ignorance and lack of patience to read through 4 pages of posts......but what exactly is the purpose of the WebEPG?

Is it to replace XMLTV? I'm living in Canada....do I need to use this?

I guess I'm just needing a little more information as to what the purpose of the WebEPG is and whether or not I need it?

Thanks!

 

[James]

Hi Khris,

Your answer is here: http://nolanparty.com/mediaportal.sourceforge.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=7371&highlight=

To add to that, a lot of people are having trouble with EPGs in general and xmltv in particular. Just do a search on xmltv in the forum and see how many hits you get.

Anyway, I hope WebEPG is easier to setup and get going. In the next release the new MP setup wizard will do the setup for WebEPG.

Hope this helps,

/James

 

[Khris]

Thanks for the info.

Since I'm not having any problems at all with XMLTV, I don't see the need to change at the moment.

If it becomes a part of MP in the future, I guess then I won't have a choice.