zap2xml - a free zap2it scraper

[tony1234]

In what field? In title/subtitle/desc those are converted to "é,ê"

In both title & desc.

let's say I've something like this in my xmltv.xml
..
<title lang="en">Enqu&ecirc;te d'aventure</title>
<desc lang="en">Exploration sur les motivations qui poussent les aventuriers &agrave; se d&eacute;passer.</desc>
..

If I replace with the proper accents like:
...
<title lang="en">Enquête d'aventure</title>
<desc lang="en">Exploration sur les motivations qui poussent les aventuriers à se dépasser.</desc>
...

and update the EPG, everything is fine.

MSN_XMLTV_scraper.exe is outputting the accents in the xml.

Maybe they should be escaped instead of being converted to HTML or simply left as is.

thanks.

marc

[tony1234]

I've installed ActivePerl and removed encode_entities() from from zap2xml.pl
The accents are showing up fine now.

[jdg]

I've installed ActivePerl and removed encode_entities() from from zap2xml.pl
The accents are showing up fine now.

Ok, I guess whatever is reading your .xml isn't able to convert them back.

zap2xml now has command line "-e" option to convert these characters. By default it doesn't convert them anymore..

[ZaDDaZ]

In what field? In title/subtitle/desc those are converted to "&eacute;,&ecirc;"

Those entities are only valid for HTML, not standard XML.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_XML...references

Just ran across this in my work and the company I was working with was insisting these were valid and couldn't understand that were doing just XML. If the encoding you are using for the file does not support certain characters, say ANSI encoding and attempting to put in character code 260, you have to use &#260; or create an entity reference in the beginning of the XML document for this character.

[kwong26]

anyone using this scraper find that with this scraper feeding the EPG through the XMLTV plugin that scheduling was off? Before using this plugin, I was able to make back to back recordings of shows on different channels or even the same channel. When i used this scraper to get the XML file, I couldn't seem to get GBPVR to record shows one after another.

Here's my other post where I discussed this before I figured out it was the actual program which feeds the EPG that seems to be causing my problem. Without using this scraper, all's well in recording land.

http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?t=29045

[-Oz-]

anyone using this scraper find that with this scraper feeding the EPG through the XMLTV plugin that scheduling was off? Before using this plugin, I was able to make back to back recordings of shows on different channels or even the same channel. When i used this scraper to get the XML file, I couldn't seem to get GBPVR to record shows one after another.

Here's my other post where I discussed this before I figured out it was the actual program which feeds the EPG that seems to be causing my problem. Without using this scraper, all's well in recording land.

http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?t=29045

This makes me think its handling the time wrong here.

[jdg]

Perhaps you can point out the important difference in the .xml files? Probably easy to fix.

[kwong26]

Perhaps you can point out the important difference in the .xml files? Probably easy to fix.

I wish I could, but I'm not exactly sure what the difference is between the two. The only noticeable difference that I noticed was that MSN_XMLTV_Scraper had the timezone set to +0000, and ZAP2XML had the timezone set to -0400. Apart from that, I couldn't really figure out what exactly was different. I know that file size was different only because yours had more details than the other one.

I'm just trying to figure out whether anyone else has noticed any type of scheduling issues when they used ZAP2XML. Does your HTPC work when you schedule two shows back to back on one capture card? I only have one tuner since it's connected to a STB.

[jdg]

I wish I could, but I'm not exactly sure what the difference is between the two. The only noticeable difference that I noticed was that MSN_XMLTV_Scraper had the timezone set to +0000, and ZAP2XML had the timezone set to -0400. Apart from that, I couldn't really figure out what exactly was different. I know that file size was different only because yours had more details than the other one.

I'm just trying to figure out whether anyone else has noticed any type of scheduling issues when they used ZAP2XML. Does your HTPC work when you schedule two shows back to back on one capture card? I only have one tuner since it's connected to a STB.

-0400 just means you are on the east cost and the time has been adjusted. The start/stop time output looks exactly the same as the original XMLTV tv_grab_na_dd script so I don't know what the problem could be.

Maybe someone else can answer the two-shows-back-to-back question; I don't have experience with that ( not using the data for gbpvr at the moment )

[reboot]

nevermind...I finally figured that the last step is to actually "update epg" from the taskbar icon, so everything seems to work good!
A few more steps involved, but I'll figure out how to automate it a little more as I go along.