Yahoo7 Australia Grabber Broken (1 Viewer)

[Boony]

Hi All, is anyone else having problems with the Australia Yahoo7 EPG grabber file? Looks like Yahoo7 have changed their TV guide web location and structure so the grabber is not getting any data. Must have happened on Thursday or Friday last week

 

[benjerry]

Hi All, is anyone else having problems with the Australia Yahoo7 EPG grabber file? Looks like Yahoo7 have changed their TV guide web location and structure so the grabber is not getting any data. Must have happened on Thursday or Friday last week

If it's this site: TV and Australian TV Guide Yahoo!7 TV
then I can confirm that the grabber script is totally different from what is expected.

Looks like they moved from a simple html table to a javascript script grid system.

Prospect of getting good data from this new guide doesn't look well.

 

[russtaylor]

After this happened the other week I've configured mediaportal to grab the epg data over the air. It's grabbing a week or two worth of data is working well at the moment.

I see the stations are now going update epg data when shows run late - Freeview's new EPG - too little, too late? | Digihub Blog | digihub.theage.com.au

 

[SteveR]

Hmm, a little unfortunate if you are stuck out in the scrub at Newman and it's mostly analog channels

 

[whatisk]

After this happened the other week I've configured mediaportal to grab the epg data over the air. It's grabbing a week or two worth of data is working well at the moment.

I think I've configued mediaportal to grab the epg data over the air, however, I never seem to get anything for 7 Two.
Are you getting info for that okay? If so, are you able to give me a quick rundown of settings to check?
Should I clear the current EPG data and if so, how do I do that?

I'm currently running MP 1.0.2

Thanks.

Edit: I was originally using angussman's epg grabber, but noticed the same issue with that - i wouldn't get info for 7 Two

 

[loc]

i've been using over the air grabber in brisbane for about a year now and have never had issues with 7two...

 

[predakanga]

It's very possible to pull data from the new Javascript site, but I'm not sure it's within the scope of WebEPG.

I've written my own scraper for it (which I'll provide if people want it), and it generates a nightly listing of NSW channels at http://predakanga-aus.dyndns.org/xmltv.xml - it's regenerated at 3AM each day.

If anyone wants a copy of the scraper, so that they can modify it or whatever, just ask - it's written in Python, using the urlgrabber, xmltv and pytz modules.