zap2xml - a free zap2it scraper

[Mike S]

I don't seem to be getting show descriptions anymore. Does anybody else have this problem?

[bigC]

I don't seem to be getting show descriptions anymore. Does anybody else have this problem?

Yeah, I was coming here to post about that. Also, everything was off an hour due to the clock change but an epg update fixed that issue. Could it be related?

[tvshowman]

no show desrciptions here too so that's a bummer

only get show titles now

[lolento]

confirmed no show description for me too.

too bad, this is by far the best scraper out there.

[bigC]

I sent an email to zap2xml's author about the descriptions. Maybe it can be fixed...

[whitebar]

Me too, Linfor! This is my one complaint of the program. Does anyone have any idea why this happens? It is periodic, only during primetime, and lasts for a 1-3 weeks usually. It takes the show that starts at 6pm and has it lasting til about midnight on each channel. It's a parsing problem (or scraping) it seems because it is incorrect in the xml file. Therefore I do not think it's a GBPVR problem at all. Anyone have any idea? It seems to me something on the site must change from time to time for a given week's listings that makes a difference in the way the scraper reads it. When I look at the page I can't see any difference visually so it would have to be a programmatic difference. This has happened to me several times with periods in between working perfectly. Last week the most recent incident began and this week it is still messed up. I have cleared cache, updated my *.exe file, cleared the epg, remapped digital channels and so on. Again, it seems to me it's a problem with the way the xml file is generated, the ONE thing I rely upon this program doing without understanding or caring to know how it does it.

Help? Please...

I also saw this and looked into the cache file data. What I found was that the html page was not complete for the six hour time block. I updated my copy of the perl script to delete cache files that are missing data much like the "To be announced" shows. I have not sent this improvement to the author yet, but will do soon.

[HarryH3]

The short descriptions appear to still be included in the zap2xml.xml file. I see lots of them with the header "sub-title", but none display in the TV Guide. Is there a display setting somewhere that got overwritten with the update to 1.2.9, or did something change on the zap2it website?

[bigC]

The short descriptions appear to still be included in the zap2xml.xml file. I see lots of them with the header "sub-title", but none display in the TV Guide. Is there a display setting somewhere that got overwritten with the update to 1.2.9, or did something change on the zap2it website?

My xml file has no descriptions... sub-title is just the episode name, tv guide still shows that here.

[Mike S]

Looks like this has been fixed in the latest version

[HarryH3]

My xml file has no descriptions... sub-title is just the episode name, tv guide still shows that here.

Ah, OK. I guess I was calling it the wrong thing. But my sub-titles don't show on-screen for some reason since I upgraded to GBPVR v1.2.9.