Customize WebEPG for India HELP! (1 Viewer)

[Dadeo]

I found a new site that lists over 150 channels in India and seems very accurate. Before I go ahead and make grabber files for each channel separately, I thought it might be easier if I could use the one site.

However, it has an interesting way of specifying the dates, so I don't know if it will work with WebEPG. The site is www.zipazap.com and it has both a multichannel grid or listings for individual sites.

The intial day for the MUTLIGRID page opens with the URL
'http://www.zipazap.com/dgx/wblx.dll?h=1&a=37' but subsequent days are
'http://www.zipazap.com/dgx/wblx.dll?h=1&a=37&dt=47812530&chi=0'
'http://www.zipazap.com/dgx/wblx.dll?h=1&a=37&dt=478276b0&chi=0'

The Single Channel page opens withe the URL:
'http://www.zipazap.com/dgx/wblx.dll?h=1&a=2&ch=22&dt=477fd3b0' subsequent days are
'http://www.zipazap.com/dgx/wblx.dll?h=1&a=2&dt=47812530&Ch=22'
'http://www.zipazap.com/dgx/wblx.dll?h=1&a=2&dt=478276b0&Ch=22'

It looks easy to specify the channel, but can I use WebEPG for dates like this? If so, can anyone tell me how? Thanks for any help you can give me!

 

[Dadeo]

I've done some more analysis on the above site (www.zipazap.com). The date codes only appear in the url when you switch channels in the single channel view. However, you can access any of the pages by using the date code and channel id in the url (as above).

In the date (dt=) I don't know what 47 is, but the 8 is a week reference. The guide has 14 days data. The first 8 days are referenced by 8 (478...) and then the next 6 days are referenced by 9 (479...). I think this is the same every time I access the site (it just counts from the current day).

After that I am lost. I don't recognize the pattern of the rest of the dates. Here is a list of the current date codes. I can't make sense of the last five characters. Can anyone help?


478462e0 Wednesday 9th January
4785b460 Thursday 10th January
478705e0 Friday 11th January
47885760 Saturday 12th January
4789a8e0 Sunday 13th January
478afa60 Monday 14th January
478c4be0 Tuesday 15th January
478d9d60 Wednesday 16th January
478eeee0 Thursday 17th January
47904060 Friday 18th January
479191e0 Saturday 19th January
4792e360 Sunday 20th January
479434e0 Monday 21st January
47958660 Tuesday 22nd January
4796d7e0 Wednesday 23rd January

 

[vuego]

Looks like the amount of seconds since 1970-01-01 in hex.

24 h = 1440 min = 86400 seconds = 15180 in hex

If you start calc.exe, switch to hex mode, start at 478462e0 and add 15180 in every step you'll end up at the values you specified

 

[Dadeo]

Enter Epoch Time in Hex?

You are a genius! That's it perfectly! Even the first date is the hex for the number of seconds since 1970-01-01!

Now, how can I enter that as a date in the URL? I tried [EPOCH_TIME] but of course it enters it in decimal. Is there any way to tell WebEPG to enter it in hex?

 

[Dadeo]

Well I thought I would try [DAY_OFFSET] and it worked perfectly! Go figure! Good old trial and error, stab in the dark, needle in a haystack.... I could go on!

It wouldn't have thought of it without your tip Vuego. Thanks again!