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Just a heads-up; a couple of XBMC developer are now currently in the process of finalizing a new scraper which uses the slightly updated scraper API in XBMC, so if anyone plans on integrating this into MediaPortal today then maybe you should wait for just a couple weeks first, (otherwise your work will have to be redone again later).

The new API will be PCRE (Perl Compatible Regular Expressions) compatible, that will allow PCRE RegEx to be used in the XML files which should make for a faster, simpler and more user-friendly RegEx by those working on XML scrapers. So if you like to be one step ahead then you might want to implement a PCRE parser library, and/or PCRE support in MediaPortal's existing RegEx parser.

Perl Compatible Regular Expressions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
PCRE - Perl Compatible Regular Expressions

PS! Know that some existing scrapers that are available in XBMC's SVN are not currently working, this is simply because the website that they scape have been changed in a way so that someone will need to update those XML scrapers for them to work again, (which none one have done yet if they are broken at any given time). However if MediaPortal (and possible MeediOS as well) starts using the same scraper API then we should all together be able to make a better job of keeping all the available scrapers up-to-date.

<blockquote data-quote="Gamester17" data-source="post: 237754" data-attributes="member: 10298">Just a heads-up; a couple of XBMC developer are now currently in the process of finalizing a new scraper which uses the slightly updated scraper API in XBMC, so if anyone plans on integrating this into MediaPortal today then maybe you should wait for just a couple weeks first, (otherwise your work will have to be redone again later).The new API will be PCRE (Perl Compatible Regular Expressions) compatible, that will allow PCRE RegEx to be used in the XML files which should make for a faster, simpler and more user-friendly RegEx by those working on XML scrapers. So if you like to be one step ahead then you might want to implement a PCRE parser library, and/or PCRE support in MediaPortal's existing RegEx parser.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCRE" target="_blank">Perl Compatible Regular Expressions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</a><a href="http://www.pcre.org" target="_blank">PCRE - Perl Compatible Regular Expressions</a>PS! Know that some existing scrapers that are available in XBMC's SVN are not currently working, this is simply because the website that they scape have been changed in a way so that someone will need to update those XML scrapers for them to work again, (which none one have done yet if they are broken at any given time).&nbsp; However if MediaPortal (and possible MeediOS as well) starts using the same scraper API then we should all together be able to make a better job of keeping all the available scrapers up-to-date.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Gamester17, post: 237754, member: 10298"] Just a heads-up; a couple of XBMC developer are now currently in the process of finalizing a new scraper which uses the slightly updated scraper API in XBMC, so if anyone plans on integrating this into MediaPortal today then maybe you should wait for just a couple weeks first, (otherwise your work will have to be redone again later). The new API will be PCRE (Perl Compatible Regular Expressions) compatible, that will allow PCRE RegEx to be used in the XML files which should make for a faster, simpler and more user-friendly RegEx by those working on XML scrapers. So if you like to be one step ahead then you might want to implement a PCRE parser library, and/or PCRE support in MediaPortal's existing RegEx parser. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCRE]Perl Compatible Regular Expressions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/url] [url=http://www.pcre.org]PCRE - Perl Compatible Regular Expressions[/url] PS! Know that some existing scrapers that are available in XBMC's SVN are not currently working, this is simply because the website that they scape have been changed in a way so that someone will need to update those XML scrapers for them to work again, (which none one have done yet if they are broken at any given time). However if MediaPortal (and possible MeediOS as well) starts using the same scraper API then we should all together be able to make a better job of keeping all the available scrapers up-to-date. [/QUOTE]