Suggestions

[jasonf]

Zap2it data does provide genre and other episode information (i.e., whether it is a repeat or first-time airing). While Sub does not incorporate this into the GBPVR EPG info, I think Jorm has a separate database app that also pulls zap2it info.

[jorm]

I do have an application that pulls down the zap2it database including generes. I want to do some work to it to make it easier.

Including a dll for searching and accessing the data.
New tables for
categoryLists
mapping from zap2it id to program oids.

I have emailed rating zone seeing if they have an interface we can use to programatically send shows and get updates.

The imdb recommendations is not a bad idea. At least for a start. We need to check to see if IMDbPY supports recommendations.

The categories are definitely needed otherwise we will start getting a bunch of the wifes and girlfriends shows. If you can start suggestions based on the categories of a show that would be good.

episode-level suggestions are not worth the return. Show level is a good way to go.


We should also consider pending shows. So if you watch these shows lets say Stargate and the new Battlestar galatica miniseries is comming out, it might not replay so it might be good to have some logic for this as well.

[aegisx]

Ratings could be given through the web interface, might be easier that tring to design a good way to do it through a plugin and remote control

[jrockintuitive]

Quote[/b] ]We should also consider pending shows. So if you watch these shows lets say Stargate and the new Battlestar galatica miniseries is comming out, it might not replay so it might be good to have some logic for this as well.

How would that work... would you get all new sci fi shows?


It would also be nice if you can can auto record items with a very high match and put other items in a recommended bin.

[jorm]

not all new scifi but if we actually had a web interface for the correlations we could use that. Maybe scifi that are similiar or maybe scifi on that channel. Not exactly sure.

[aegisx]

i don't think by channel is that useful, should be channel independent? Similiar seems like it would catch more you might like.

[KingArgyle]

A quick web search turned up the following code example on how to Post back to a web page a response. This could be used to help with interfacing with pages that don't really have an API available. Basically, if anybody is familiar with the REST style of Web Services this is something similar.

http://www.dotnet247.com/247reference/msgs/1/9996.aspx

There are also several examples on how to screen scrape a site to get information out of the web pages. Don't have those readily available but a Google search on Screen Scrape C# turned up a bunch of hits with examples.

This type of technique could be used to develop an interface to RatingZone.com, until they get around to developing a true API interface to the site.

[jasonf]

Whenever I think of screen-scraping HTML, I want that HTML to behave like XML, and then it's just a matter of working with the XML API.

Chris Lovett of Microsoft has a SgmlReader class that does just this. Great for turning HTML into XHTML (surrounds attributes with quotes, closes tags, corrects closing tag mismatched ordering, etc).

A must have for anyone extracting data from HTML.

http://www.gotdotnet.com/Communi....60564bc

http://www.xmlforasp.net/codeSection.aspx?csID=94

http://www.eggheadcafe.com/articles/20030317.asp