Webepg in CH: New site 20min.ch (2 Viewers)

[Crash]

suuberi Arbeit

nice work

 

[James]

I have updated the 20min.ch Grabber with the new WebEPG features. It can now get all the information from the linked page. Making this most likely the best grabber for CH.

An example of the output is:

  <programme start="20061109232000" channel="sf1@sfdrs.ch">
    <title>Das verrückte Hotel - Fawlty Towers</title>
    <sub-title>Waldorfsalat</sub-title>
    <desc>Zwei hungrige Gäste fordern trotz später Stunde vehement, bekocht zu werden.
Pech für Basil, denn leider weigert sich Küchenchef Terry ebenso heftig, in der Küche
Überstunden zu schieben. Missmutig wirft Basil sich selbst in die Schürze. Das Verhängnis
nimmt seinen Lauf, als Mr. Hamilton einen Waldorfsalat nebst einem «Screwdriver» ordert.
Basil präsentiert stolz seine kullinarische Höchstleistung «Salatblätter am Schraubenzieher».
Zweikanalton</desc>
    <category>Serie, Comedy</category>
    <episode-num>9</episode-num>
  </programme>

I haven't added all the channels yet. I will see when I have a little more time, but if someone else would like to help out that would also be great

Enjoy,

/James

 

[CHli]

Since I saw that the fernsehen.ch grabber is now a little buggy I will investigate the 20min.ch one and complete it

I'll keep you informed !

 

[CHli]

2006-11-10 09:25:14.468750 [Info.][1]: WebEPG: Starting
[Grabbing...]
2006-11-10 11:26:50.875000 [Info.][1]: WebEPG: Finished

32 channels grabbed, mainly on 20min.ch

2 hours :-|

I think the amount of advertisment on 20min.ch is to blame I will try to stop the connections to their adserver and see what's happen.

2006-11-10 10:20:16.843750 [Info.][1]: WebEPG: Getting Channel 11 of 32
2006-11-10 10:20:16.843750 [Info.][1]: WebEPG: Opening FR\fr_tv_yahoo_com.xml
2006-11-10 10:20:16.843750 [Info.][1]: WebEPG: ChannelId: m6.fr
2006-11-10 10:20:16.843750 [Debug][1]: WebEPG: Grab Start 10:20 10.11.2006
2006-11-10 10:20:16.875000 [Info.][1]: WebEPG: Reading http://fr.tv.yahoo.com/tvpdb?d=tvs&id=166009868&channels=europe_m6t&lineup=fr&.intl=fr&startdate=1163125216 POST: 
2006-11-10 10:20:17.031250 [Info.][1]: WebEPG: Listing Count 1
2006-11-10 10:20:17.062500 [Info.][1]: Parsing error #START : Previous day
2006-11-10 10:20:17.062500 [Info.][1]: WebEPG: Reading http://fr.tv.yahoo.com/tvpdb?d=tvs&id=166009868&channels=europe_m6t&lineup=fr&.intl=fr&startdate=1163211616 POST: 
2006-11-10 10:20:17.203125 [Info.][1]: WebEPG: Listing Count 1
2006-11-10 10:20:17.203125 [Info.][1]: Parsing error #START : Previous day
2006-11-10 10:20:17.203125 [Info.][1]: WebEPG: Reading http://fr.tv.yahoo.com/tvpdb?d=tvs&id=166009868&channels=europe_m6t&lineup=fr&.intl=fr&startdate=1163298016 POST: 
2006-11-10 10:20:17.359375 [Info.][1]: WebEPG: Listing Count 1
2006-11-10 10:20:17.359375 [Info.][1]: Parsing error #START : Previous day

What does previous day mean ?

 

[James]

The "Pervious day" is the text that was parsed for the #START field. This is clearly an error, because it should be a time.

Most likely is this text on the page and the template is getting this for #START.

The ads wont be loaded by WebEPG, unless you use the external option. This uses IE to get the data and IE likes to download all this stuff.

I have seen that 20min is a little slow, but once the data is in the db then the second grab will be a lot quicker.

I have been thinking of doing a two pass grab. Step one just the main page data for each day and then in a second step get the extended details for each program.

Cheers,

/James

 

[CHli]

Thanks for the additional informations ! I will have time sunday afternoon to have a look at the missing channels.

 

[TimmyT]

Hi James
I'm using the 20min grabber for a couple of months and it beats the rest by far. Thanks a lot for your work!

Now a little request: Could you please add the two stations "3plus" and "U1 TV" to the 20min_ch.xml grabber?

<Channel id="3plus.ch" siteId="184" />
<Channel id="u1tv.ch" siteId="52 />

That would be great, then I don't have to update the xml file after every new svn version.

thanks a lot
TimmyT

 

[James]

Done