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Message: <blockquote data-quote="scott_k2" data-source="post: 79859" data-attributes="member: 21305">I'm another one of the frustrated Australian users who's EPG sources keep drying up.I know there is 2 sources left, but for how long I'm not too sure.I'm considering writing a java based grabber and was wondering if anyone else has looked into using the Cobra toolkit (<a href="http://html.xamjwg.org/cobra.jsp" target="_blank">http://html.xamjwg.org/cobra.jsp</a>) so that if the web pages are encrypted with javascript etc, they can still be used and made readable to any java application.This would seem to be a neat design, so that if any encryption algorithms etc are changed, the grabber would not need to be altered if the HTML Document object structure is still basically the same. I believe that so long as a few sites are providing browser based tv guides in Australia, I should be able to parse them with some tools such as cobra rather than the simpler screen scapping type techniques I assume other grabbers use(I mean no disrespect to the authors, and I've hardly looked at anyone else's source code - I love the KISS principal if it works).Another alternative I've considered but haven't done too much research on, is if a plugin could be developed for Firefox to generate an XMLGuide from a websites normal html guide. I think this may be more complicated than using something like Cobra, and I like the fact that a java application using Cobra can be run on the command line, so that it can easily be scheduled for automatic updates.I haven't written a grabber before, so I may be in over my head, but just playing around with the cobra sample code I can already get the encyption in the program guides web sites jsp's to be automatically read for one australian web site.Any thoughts guys, has anyone else been down this path? I think it should be possible.</blockquote>

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