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<blockquote data-quote="petsa" data-source="post: 269721" data-attributes="member: 29962">Hi entrecour,1. If you only want to add a channel to an existing grabber it should be easy. You only need to add some stuff at the top where it locates the right page. If you are about to writer a granner from scratch there will be more work needed. It depends on the complexity of the web page you are trying to access etc.&nbsp; 2. In principle any web page can be used as the source for a grabber. In the grabber you search for specific patterns and extract data from the HTML-code based on the template = grabber. Again depending on the complexity of the page it can take more or less time to write such grabber. Another thing to keep in mind is how often the layout of the page will change. If the layout changes frequently you may end up having to fix your grabber ever so often. Using a &quot;standard&quot; grabber that more people use makes more poeple involved in fixing it.../Peter</blockquote>

[QUOTE="petsa, post: 269721, member: 29962"] Hi entrecour, 1. If you only want to add a channel to an existing grabber it should be easy. You only need to add some stuff at the top where it locates the right page. If you are about to writer a granner from scratch there will be more work needed. It depends on the complexity of the web page you are trying to access etc. 2. In principle any web page can be used as the source for a grabber. In the grabber you search for specific patterns and extract data from the HTML-code based on the template = grabber. Again depending on the complexity of the page it can take more or less time to write such grabber. Another thing to keep in mind is how often the layout of the page will change. If the layout changes frequently you may end up having to fix your grabber ever so often. Using a "standard" grabber that more people use makes more poeple involved in fixing it... /Peter [/QUOTE]

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