EPG Data Question

volksman · 2007-01-09, 02:11 PM

Hey All!

Am planning a little app that will help me determine what is coming on in the next 14 days. Not really big on the idea of learning about XML parsers to go through the XMLTV or Zap2it dumps so I was wondering if GB stores this info in the DB. If so where? I found a table called PROGRAMME but it is a little confusing and shows no channel info. So how does it relate that to the correct channel?

Any info or pointers to where I can read up on how GB stores guide data would be greatly appreciated.

martint123 · 2007-01-09, 03:13 PM

One field of table 'programme' is 'channel_oid' this is a pointer to table 'channel' which has a 'name' field - the channel name.
I don't think sub has released any database info as it's a dangerous place to wander and would probably result in many unnecessary support 'calls'.

Martin

volksman · 2007-01-09, 03:33 PM

the channel_id field in my PROGRAMME table only has three values assigned throughout 1,2,231 spread over 1000 rows. I fail to see how this corresponds with the name field in the CHANNEL table. Did I miss something? Is this a stored procedure or something? Maybe its because I'm using SQLlite DB Browser and not something else?

And yeah I guess that not documenting it makes sense but I would think if the ability to create plugins depends on this stuff it might have been somewhere... Smile

***sub*** · 2007-01-09, 03:58 PM

As martin said above, the channel_oid column in the PROGRAMME table is used to find the related CHANNEL (joined on channel_oid to oid). The CHANNEL table has a 'name'.

Quote:the channel_id field in my PROGRAMME table only has three values assigned throughout 1,2,231 spread over 1000 rows. I fail to see how this corresponds with the name field in the CHANNEL table. Did I miss something?

I'm sure you've got it right, but there can be a lot of listings, so you'll probably need to look at a lot of rows. Some users with 13 days of listings and lots of channels can have over quarter of million PROGRAMME records.

volksman · 2007-01-09, 04:21 PM

Man was I confused on this for a bit here. My EPG works fine so I knew that the zap2it listings were getting parsed properly but I could only see 1000 rows.

Then I noticed the stupid > button in SQL Browser.... Smile

I can now see the correlation. Thanks for the info! I should be good from here...!

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