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<blockquote data-quote="will_ssi" data-source="post: 1231878" data-attributes="member: 155019">Yeah, as long as the channel specific URLs are capturing the zipcode entered from the main listing, it could work. From my brief testing, it looks like the channel specific URL is for an entire region of the US (east cost, central, etc), with zipcode specificity set through a cookie; i.e. the scraping model used with the imdb xml file wouldn't translate. For example, using your link if I enter my zipcode, the URL of the entire channel listings reflects it. If i go a specific channel's page (i.e. <a href="http://tvlistings.zap2it.com/tvlistings/ZCSGrid.do?stnNum=28055&amp;channel=2.1&amp;aid=zap2it" target="_blank">TV Listings: Find Local TV Listings for your favorite Channels, TV Shows and Movies- Zap2it</a>) in a private browser window, there is no zipcode specified on that site. Station number (stnNum) might still be local and pulled from my zip entered on the schedule page, but its hard to tell from the URL format.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="will_ssi, post: 1231878, member: 155019"] Yeah, as long as the channel specific URLs are capturing the zipcode entered from the main listing, it could work. From my brief testing, it looks like the channel specific URL is for an entire region of the US (east cost, central, etc), with zipcode specificity set through a cookie; i.e. the scraping model used with the imdb xml file wouldn't translate. For example, using your link if I enter my zipcode, the URL of the entire channel listings reflects it. If i go a specific channel's page (i.e. [URL="http://tvlistings.zap2it.com/tvlistings/ZCSGrid.do?stnNum=28055&channel=2.1&aid=zap2it"]TV Listings: Find Local TV Listings for your favorite Channels, TV Shows and Movies- Zap2it[/URL]) in a private browser window, there is no zipcode specified on that site. Station number (stnNum) might still be local and pulled from my zip entered on the schedule page, but its hard to tell from the URL format. [/QUOTE]

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