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<blockquote data-quote="globaldonkey" data-source="post: 310496" data-attributes="member: 49844">Yes, any service that you can access via a URL that provides XMLTV data should work. It can also unzip the data if it is zipped. It can't scrape http pages like WebEPG can. It gets a bit trickier with complex websites that split the data into multiple URL's / files, but Kev has written a good setup guide that explains it. Just be careful with the setup guide - it still refers to TVLibrary as the database name, and as of RC2 it changed to MpTvDbRC2.I've actually used WebEPG to scrape the yahoo pages in Australia and generate a local XMLTV file, and then I'm using EPG Downloader to grab this and some other internet feeds to combine them and import them into MP. I'm mainly doing this so I have a choice of data sources - these things tend to move or dry up, particularly the free ones, and some of the data sources are not so good. I could do the same with WebEPG, but it's a little cumbersome setting up the XML config files. This tool is just brilliant in it's simplicity if your source is already in XMLTV format, and it shoves the data straight into the TV database (without overwriting any channels you might have setup for DVB grabbing). The real annoying thing about WebEPG is that for any sites that require authentication, you need to manually edit this in the WebEPG.xml file, and every time you run the config tool, it gets rid of this section.From a US perspective, I don't think it would work with Zap2It or Yahoo, because I think that needs to be scraped, but I think it might work with Schedules Direct.The obvious limitation of http scraping is that you are at the mercy of the website designer. If they re-organise the website, you need to change your templates. It's also probably against the conditions of use of the website.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="globaldonkey, post: 310496, member: 49844"] Yes, any service that you can access via a URL that provides XMLTV data should work. It can also unzip the data if it is zipped. It can't scrape http pages like WebEPG can. It gets a bit trickier with complex websites that split the data into multiple URL's / files, but Kev has written a good setup guide that explains it. Just be careful with the setup guide - it still refers to TVLibrary as the database name, and as of RC2 it changed to MpTvDbRC2. I've actually used WebEPG to scrape the yahoo pages in Australia and generate a local XMLTV file, and then I'm using EPG Downloader to grab this and some other internet feeds to combine them and import them into MP. I'm mainly doing this so I have a choice of data sources - these things tend to move or dry up, particularly the free ones, and some of the data sources are not so good. I could do the same with WebEPG, but it's a little cumbersome setting up the XML config files. This tool is just brilliant in it's simplicity if your source is already in XMLTV format, and it shoves the data straight into the TV database (without overwriting any channels you might have setup for DVB grabbing). The real annoying thing about WebEPG is that for any sites that require authentication, you need to manually edit this in the WebEPG.xml file, and every time you run the config tool, it gets rid of this section. From a US perspective, I don't think it would work with Zap2It or Yahoo, because I think that needs to be scraped, but I think it might work with Schedules Direct. The obvious limitation of http scraping is that you are at the mercy of the website designer. If they re-organise the website, you need to change your templates. It's also probably against the conditions of use of the website. [/QUOTE]

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