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<blockquote data-quote="mzemina" data-source="post: 49122" data-attributes="member: 11677">WeeToddDid - Since it seems like one of the most common issues with a plugin/program like yours is when the associated web page changes its format enough to break the formatting and that causes the source data to not appear correctly to your parser. The end result is users think that the plugin/program is &quot;broken.&quot;I know that what I am about to inquire about is well beyond the realm of what you have any plans for, especially since Daddy duties have taken over for you and it is a much higher task than any MP task could be. Anyway it would be nice if there was a multi-purpose standalone web-page format converter-parser input tool and its use would be to allow it to be used for the TVSeries plugin and EPG, and any other web page scrapper - its purpose would be to tag the necessary data locations so the underlying parse could take those &quot;tags&quot; and allow its input for the necessary parsers of the associated plugins.I know that what I am describing is too simplistic and it may not work in general due to the overall complexity and asking for users to perform such a task maybe well beyond the scope of &quot;are you nuts?&quot;But it is a thought. And if worked would then not require a programmer to &quot;fix&quot; the code to work with the new web page's changed format/layout.Mike</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mzemina, post: 49122, member: 11677"] [b]WeeToddDid[/b] - Since it seems like one of the most common issues with a plugin/program like yours is when the associated web page changes its format enough to break the formatting and that causes the source data to not appear correctly to your parser. The end result is users think that the plugin/program is "broken." I know that what I am about to inquire about is well beyond the realm of what you have any plans for, especially since Daddy duties have taken over for you and it is a [u]much[/u] higher task than any MP task could be. Anyway it would be nice if there was a multi-purpose standalone web-page format converter-parser input tool and its use would be to allow it to be used for the TVSeries plugin and EPG, and any other web page scrapper - its purpose would be to [u]tag[/u] the necessary data locations so the underlying parse could take those "tags" and allow its input for the necessary parsers of the associated plugins. I know that what I am describing is too simplistic and it may not work in general due to the overall complexity and asking for users to perform such a task maybe [u]well[/u] beyond the scope of "are you nuts?" But it is a thought. And if worked would then not require a programmer to "fix" the code to work with the new web page's changed format/layout. Mike [/QUOTE]

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