Zap2it Closing Down

[kaizen]

This is pretty much what I said a few pages back. I even used 30,000 as an example of numbers of web pages hits and how I got banned for doing exactly this. After the initial load you could drop back to scrapping just the next 36hrs or so of listings, which drops the number down quite a bit - but its still too high. This is why I was suggesting other options for propagating the info in chunks via usenet or p2p, though this probably steps over a legal line (though with all the people willing to share movies and music online, sharing a few TV listings might not be a concern to many).

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If this is the case though, howis an outfit like OpenDNS surviving? I would think that the number of queries they're getting at any given is a magnitude greater than those for XML listings, and the only ad support they get is if I mistype a url.

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This is pretty much what I said a few pages back. I even used 30,000 as an example of numbers of web pages hits and how I got banned for doing exactly this. After the initial load you could drop back to scrapping just the next 36hrs or so of listings, which drops the number down quite a bit - but its still too high. This is why I was suggesting other options for propagating the info in chunks via usenet or p2p, though this probably steps over a legal line (though with all the people willing to share movies and music online, sharing a few TV listings might not be a concern to many).

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If this is the case though, howis an outfit like OpenDNS surviving? I would think that the number of queries they're getting at any given is a magnitude greater than those for XML listings, and the only ad support they get is if I mistype a url.

I dont know what OpenDNS has to do with this. All I'm saying is that one user grabbing about a week's worth of listings faily for about 100 channels typically needs about 30000 hits on the web server, which is a shitload. It doesnt take too many users doing that before it's an large amount of hits on their website - much more than they probably get today. Of course yahoo or whoever could cope with this if they wanted to, but are they currently setup for this type of usage for their tv listings portal (which is probably only lightly used today)?

[Anthony]

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Is there any way to utilize the PVR feature on TitanTV.com to schedule recordings with GB-PVR?

Unless there are fees involved, maybe it would be a crude work around until a better solution is found.

Anthony

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Is there any way to utilize the PVR feature on TitanTV.com to schedule recordings with GB-PVR?

If you can extract its listings to xmltv files, then you can use it with GB-PVR.

[Anthony]

> If you can extract its listings to xmltv files,
> then you can use it with GB-PVR.

I wasn't thinking of loading the data into GB-PVR's TV listings.

I was talking about browsing the listings on TitanTV.com, then clicking the little "record" icon on their web site to save that shows channel/start time/end time so GB-PVR could record it.

Basically, use the TitanTV guide instead of the GBPVR guide, but let GBPVR do the actual recording.

Is this possible?

Anthony

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Sorry, I did know what you meant.

You guys might be able to roll your own solution like that using the ScheduleHelper API to make a command line utility for scheduling manual recordings, but it's not really somthing I'm interested in developing. Too much in GB-PVR wouldnt work in GB-PVR with this type of setup, so not worth it in my book.

[fering]

Yahoo Canada has Canadian TV listings:
http://ca.tv.yahoo.com/listings

.../j

Canada.com allows you to view listings in a "text" format that has show start time, show end time, show title, and show description (this being the important one to save on clicks), might be a good place to start.

[ioan]

titantv.com has soap services:

http://data.titantv.com/dataservice.asmx?WSDL
and
http://data.titantv.com/dataservice.asmx

-ioan

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titantv.com has soap services:

http://data.titantv.com/dataservice.asmx?WSDL
and
http://data.titantv.com/dataservice.asmx

-ioan

Now, thats interesting. Has anyone tried feeding in the appropriate values to see if they get listings back?

[ioan]

Now, thats interesting. Has anyone tried feeding in the appropriate values to what they get back?

I wanted to try but I can't find a valid UUID....
If you guys find an good UUID, I will try to make a test app tomorrow.

-ioan