XMLTV - User contributions [en]

User:Hcvst

2008-12-09T13:58:20Z

Hcvst:

Hi,

I run http://xmltv.info - a site where you can download the German TV program in xmltv format.
At the moment xmltv.info does not have an official grabber. There is, however,
a simple python-based grabber available from http://xmltv.info/mythtv/GrabberScript-Python

If you have any questions regarding the grabber or the site in general please visit
the forum at http://forum.xmltv.info

Best regards,

Hans Christian

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Hallo,

ich bin Betreiber der Seite http://xmltv.info, von der sie das deutsche Fernsehprogramm im XMLTV Format herunterladen können. Im Moment bietet xmltv.info noch keinen offiziellen Grabber. Sie können
allerdings einen Grabber, der in der Programmiersprache Python geschrieben wurde, hier herunterladen
http://xmltv.info/mythtv/GrabberScript-Python .

Bei Fragen besuchen sie bitte das Forum http://forum.xmltv.info.

Viele Grüße,

Hans Christian

User:Hcvst

2008-12-09T13:57:31Z

Hcvst:

Hi,

I run http://xmltv.info - a site where you can download the German TV program in xmltv format.
At the moment xmltv.info does not have an official grabber. There is, however,
a simple python-based grabber available from http://xmltv.info/mythtv/GrabberScript-Python

If you have any questions regarding the grabber or the site in general please visit
the forum at http://forum.xmltv.info

Regards,

Hans Christian

----

Hallo,

ich bin Betreiber der Seite http://xmltv.info, von der sie das deutsche Fernsehprogramm im XMLTV Format herunterladen können. Im Moment bietet xmltv.info noch keinen offiziellen Grabber. Sie können
allerdings einen Grabber, der in der Programmiersprache Python geschrieben wurde, hier herunterladen
http://xmltv.info/mythtv/GrabberScript-Python .

Bei Fragen besuchen sie bitte das Forum http://forum.xmltv.info.

Viele Grüße,
Hans Christian

User:Hcvst

2008-12-09T13:53:20Z

Hcvst:

User:Hcvst

2008-12-09T13:52:13Z

Hcvst:

Hi,

I run xmltv.info - a site from where you can download the German TV program in xmltv format.
At the moment xmltv.info does not have an official grabber. There is, however,
a simple python-based grabber available from http://xmltv.info/mythtv/GrabberScript-Python

If you have any questions regarding the grabber or the site in general please visit
the forum at http://forum.xmltv.info

Regards,

Hans Christian

User:Hcvst

2008-12-09T13:51:30Z

Hcvst:

User:Hcvst

2008-12-09T13:50:17Z

Hcvst:

User:Hcvst

2008-12-09T13:48:24Z

Hcvst: Saying Hello

<pre>
Hi,

I run xmltv.info - a site where you can download the German TV program in xmltv format.
At the moment there is no official grabber available. There is, however,
a simple python-based grabber available from http://xmltv.info/mythtv/GrabberScript-Python

If you have any questions regarding the grabber or the site in general please visit
the forum at http://forum.xmltv.info

Regards,
HC
</pre>

User talk:Rmeden

2008-12-09T13:36:01Z

Hcvst:

User talk:Rmeden

2008-12-09T13:33:28Z

Hcvst:

Hi Robert,

why did you remove the link to xmltv.info please?

See your change from 4th Dec @ 14:51
http://wiki.xmltv.org/index.php?title=XMLTVProject&action=history

Best regards,
HC
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hcvst at xmltv.info

XMLTVProject

2008-12-04T08:38:11Z

Hcvst:

=XMLTV PROJECT=

The XMLTV Project is a set of (mostly Perl) utilities to manage your TV viewing. They work with TV listings stored in the [[XMLTVFormat]], which is based on XML. The idea is to separate out the back-end (getting the listings) from the front-end (displaying them for the user), and to implement useful operations like picking out your favorite programmes as filters that read and write XML documents.

At present there are back-ends grabbing TV listings for the following countries
[[Australia]]
[[Belgium and Luxembourg]]
[[Brazil]]
[[Argentina]]
[[Britain and Ireland]]
[http://www.gonix.net/ Croatia]
[[Denmark]]
[[Estonia]]
[[Europe]]
[[Finland]]
[http://www.lahiette.com/biboobox/ France]
[http://xmltv.info Germany]
[[Hungary and Romania]]
[[Iceland]]
[[Italy]]
[[Japan]]
[[Netherlands]]
[[North America]]
[http://www.mspc.no/gf/ Norway]
[[Portugal]]
[[Reunion Island (France)]]
[[South Africa]]
[[Spain]]
[http://tv.swedb.se/ Sweden]
[[Switzerland]]
See [[XmltvWorldDomination]].

There are filters to sort the listings by date, to remove shows that have already been broadcast, and a couple of programmes to organize your viewing by storing preferences of what shows you watch. There are a couple of back ends to produce printed output.

This software is still being developed and most of the tools are command-line based, but at least many of them have manual pages. See the [[XmltvStatus]] page for information about which grabbers currently work correctly.

==Source code==

see [[XMLTVProjectDownload]]

==Packaged versions==

see [[XMLTVProjectDownload]]

==Windows executable notes==

see [[XmltvWindowsExecutable]]

==Mailing lists==
Posting to the lists are restricted to list members only. For quick response, be sure and sign up before posting using the email address you will post from. (you can disable emails if you read via gmane)
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==Sourceforge trackers==
* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=39046&atid=424135 Bugs]
* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=39046&atid=424136 Support Requests]
* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=39046&atid=424137 Patches]
* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=39046&atid=424138 Feature Requests]

==Being notified of new releases==

If you do download a copy, please subscribe to the xmltv-announce mailing list so you can find out when new releases happen. Since websites change their format without warning, a new release might be needed at any time!
==Information for Developers==
Information is available on [[HowtoUseGrabbers]], [[HowtoWriteAGrabber]], and [[HowtoSubmitAGrabber]].

==Notes on UK/ROI Radio Times listings==

The tvgrabuk_rt grabber gets machine-readable data from the radiotimes.com site. They would like me to point out that all data is the copyright of the Radio Times website and the use of this data is restricted to personal use only.
==Other stuff==

RFC 2838 suggests a way of storing channel names based on the existing DNS hierarchy (though the channel names are not Internet hostnames). XMLTV has adopted this idea as a way to store globally-unique channel names, though at present not all the listings-grabbers use it. We have the channels.xml file (whose format is described by channels.dtd) to map between internal channel IDs and human-readable names.

An interesting side effect of keeping a preferences file listing programme titles is that you can crunch through the file later to see what words in titles you like and don't like, and what words occur most frequently in TV show titles. See A totally unscientific analysis of words appearing in British TV programme titles.

On March 14th 2002 Ed gave a on XMLTV.

[[TV CHECK]] is an application distributed with XMLTV that generates a HTML report highlighting schedule changes and bonus episodes of your favorite shows.

[[EU_epgdata|tv_grab_eu_epgdata]] is a new grabber that covers many European countries for a nominal cost

?XmltvGrabberChannels is some work in progress to organize which channels are best fetched by which grabbers. If you use one of the xmltv grabbers, feel free to update it.

[[BBC_Backstage|tv_grab_uk_bbc_backstage]] is a prototype grabber which downloads BBC TV and radio listings from [http://backstage.bbc.co.uk BBC Backstage].

==Sourceforge==

Please look at our Sourceforge project page. You can file bug reports there, or just send questions to the xmltv-users mailing list.
==Authors and copying==

The maintainer of the xmltv project is currently Robert Eden. To get in contact use one of the mailing lists mentioned above. The project code (particularly the different grabbers) was written by many people. The manual page of each program should list its authors.

If you have a question about a grabber for a particular country, it is probably best to contact the grabber's author. And then you can write in your own language instead of English. But feel free to cc the xmltv-users mailing list anyway.

These programs are free software; you may distribute them under the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 or (at your option) any later version. (See the file COPYING.)

But I do not place any restrictions on files conforming to the DTD or on programs reading and writing the XMLTV format (even if the law gave me the power to do so). You are free to use the XMLTV file format (or variants of it) for any purpose. The DTD itself is copyrighted and GPLed (it's arguably a literary work), but that does not imply that I have any copyright interest in files you create by following its instructions. -- ?EdAvis

There is no warranty for this software, see the file COPYING.