XMLtv Channel tag Replacer Python script. (1 Viewer)

[gibman]

What a sucky subject tagline I know hehe.

I have attached a python script that helps me replace user-defined tags within the tvguide.xml file with my own.

ex. I want to change all the occurences of channel="TV2.dr.dk" to
channel="TV2".

...
<programme channel="TV2" start="20070303181000 +0100">
...

Why do I want this ? In order to have MP map the XMLTV epg data to the right channel, the "channel" XML tag needs to have the same name/value as the associated channelname within MP. So they need to match each other.

Often you can configure the .config files of the perl/python XMLtv grabber scripts to change the channelnames to your needs.
But in my case this is not possible.
I use multiple tv grabbers.
This is a way for me to have the channel name mapping configuration defined in one file.

The python script can in theory do search/replace on all kinds of files.
It is not limited to XML files in any way.

U need to DL python for windoze.
http://www.python.org/

run the replace.py file.
config is replacevalues.py (edit it)

ex.
'channel="hallmark.dr1.dk"' : 'channel="Hallmark"',

The parser will look for all occurences of channel="hallmark.dr1.dk" and replace them all with channel="Hallmark"

It is possible to do a "python to exe" thing, for those who are lazy.
Although the replacevalues.py should be changed to a replacevalues.config file, otherwise it will be compiled into the final EXE.


/Gibman

 

[mayankel]

Great job, gibman...

I've tried today and it works perfect for me, but i have one question:

I want to replace every <sub-title>year</sub-title> to <date>year</date>, where "year" is a number, usually betwen 1950-2007, so i can make 57 translation, (i.e. <sub-title>1951</sub-title> to <date>1951</date>...) and i'm sure it works, but could i use any "*" or somethig to make: <sub-title>1***</sub-title> to <date>1***</date>.

Thanks and best regards