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<blockquote data-quote="RonD" data-source="post: 1231935" data-attributes="member: 117536"><p>At 1 level I'm amazed the Nov-2012 imdb grabber worked for 5 years with no changes. The EPG-grid html did not change for 5 years. Not too surprised imdb stopped providing EPG listing info. I wonder how much traffic was from people looking at listing and how much was from robo-scrappers like webepg. I switched to Schedules Direct a few years ago, $25/yr = 1 cup of coffee per month.</p><p></p><p>If you want to use zap2it or some other EPG web page with webepg you will need to build a grabber from scratch, the grabbers are tuned to match the web page html. Start from <a href="https://www.team-mediaportal.com/wiki/display/MediaPortal1/Web-EPG" target="_blank">Web-EPG</a> and have fun getting up to speed with details. You will need the <strong>WebEPG Designer</strong> tool. The wiki link is broken ([USER=82144]@mm1352000[/USER] could you fix wiki link?). I uploaded the tool to this message <a href="https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/posts/1222582/" target="_blank">WebEPG trouble creating grabber for US radio stations</a></p><p></p><p>If you want to make your own scrapper, you might look at WebGrab+Plus <a href="http://www.webgrabplus.com/" target="_blank">WebGrab+Plus</a> with the MP xmltv-plugin. They have a USA tv.com grabber, no idea if it works. I played with WebGrab+Plus grabber and thought it was more flexible and easier to use than webepg, but either option works.</p><p></p><p>There is a learning curve to reverse engineer the webpage html, get up to speed with how the scrapping tools work, and get the grabber working. A gotcha with the grabbers is low signal to noise ratio. If you "view source" for the grid webpage, the "epg grid info" is probably less than 10%-20% of the webpage. A 1 point I made a private change to the imdb grabber to follow the "program link" to grab the Season/Episode numbers and genre info. This worked for 1 channel 1 day but generated 10 times more webpage download traffic. It failed with timeouts when I tried 10 channels 7 days. I suspect imdb had some type of robo-scrapper detector and blocked my IP addr when they saw 1000s of webpage requests from my IP.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RonD, post: 1231935, member: 117536"] At 1 level I'm amazed the Nov-2012 imdb grabber worked for 5 years with no changes. The EPG-grid html did not change for 5 years. Not too surprised imdb stopped providing EPG listing info. I wonder how much traffic was from people looking at listing and how much was from robo-scrappers like webepg. I switched to Schedules Direct a few years ago, $25/yr = 1 cup of coffee per month. If you want to use zap2it or some other EPG web page with webepg you will need to build a grabber from scratch, the grabbers are tuned to match the web page html. Start from [URL='https://www.team-mediaportal.com/wiki/display/MediaPortal1/Web-EPG']Web-EPG[/URL] and have fun getting up to speed with details. You will need the [B]WebEPG Designer[/B] tool. The wiki link is broken ([USER=82144]@mm1352000[/USER] could you fix wiki link?). I uploaded the tool to this message [URL='https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/posts/1222582/']WebEPG trouble creating grabber for US radio stations[/URL] If you want to make your own scrapper, you might look at WebGrab+Plus [URL='http://www.webgrabplus.com/']WebGrab+Plus[/URL] with the MP xmltv-plugin. They have a USA tv.com grabber, no idea if it works. I played with WebGrab+Plus grabber and thought it was more flexible and easier to use than webepg, but either option works. There is a learning curve to reverse engineer the webpage html, get up to speed with how the scrapping tools work, and get the grabber working. A gotcha with the grabbers is low signal to noise ratio. If you "view source" for the grid webpage, the "epg grid info" is probably less than 10%-20% of the webpage. A 1 point I made a private change to the imdb grabber to follow the "program link" to grab the Season/Episode numbers and genre info. This worked for 1 channel 1 day but generated 10 times more webpage download traffic. It failed with timeouts when I tried 10 channels 7 days. I suspect imdb had some type of robo-scrapper detector and blocked my IP addr when they saw 1000s of webpage requests from my IP. [/QUOTE]
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