Yahoo Go TV to XMLTV (via API)

[kaizen]

Tried it with 18042 and got an error message:

"Run time error '9'.
Subscript out of range."

Seems to happen with any zip I put in. It appears to attempt to do something, but errors out after a few seconds.

(Feeling like Pigpen in Charlie Brown's Great Pumpkin, "I got a rock..." Bleahhh!)

[mark_t]

I get a correct file. but only the first 2 channels import in GB. I can navagate in live tv and the channels names are correct.

Any idea what the deal would be for the missing channels? when I look in the yapiXML.xml all the guide info is there.

update: I figured it out. it's an & in a listing. I'm writing a perl script to strip out those special characters.


TIA

[soccerdad]

Tried it with 18042 and got an error message:

"Run time error '9'.
Subscript out of range."

Seems to happen with any zip I put in. It appears to attempt to do something, but errors out after a few seconds.

(Feeling like Pigpen in Charlie Brown's Great Pumpkin, "I got a rock..." Bleahhh!)

I had the same error, but emptied the directory, unzipped the files again and it worked fine. (still have the the other problem though)

[dark_half]

When I select Comcast (Digital) for zip code 77063, the analog lineup is returned.

Otherwise, so far, so good.

Same problem for Time Warner Digital for 75234.

[matthrolf]

The y! works for me!!! I am a sole user in Wyo and have an obscure provider. The data is correct. However, any ampersands (&) need to be replaced with the html code for them I think... XML parsers are complaining.

Thanks for the hard work,

Matt

[proteus5]

I get a correct file. but only the first 2 channels import in GB. I can navagate in live tv and the channels names are correct.

Any idea what the deal would be for the missing channels? when I look in the yapiXML.xml all the guide info is there.


TIA

Same problem here, gbpvr is only showing the first 2 channels. Other wise looks good for analog Comcast in New Jersey

Thanks.....Robert

[sub]

I get a correct file. but only the first 2 channels import in GB. I can navagate in live tv and the channels names are correct.
Any idea what the deal would be for the missing channels? when I look in the yapiXML.xml all the guide info is there.

TIA

Same problem here, gbpvr is only showing the first 2 channels. Other wise looks good for analog Comcast in New Jersey

Probably worth hitting the 'update epg' button, then zip and attach the config.exe.log so we can see what it's complaining about.

[Jim_]

Probably worth hitting the 'update epg' button, then zip and attach the config.exe.log so we can see what it's complaining about.

Hi sub,

From what I can tell, it’s saving the xml with a non-standard format for some ASCII / hex characters. I wrote a patch to fix the & < > problem, but then it failed loading a show with “exposé” in the description.

From config.exe.log

2007-06-30 10:22:15.241 ERROR [7] XMLTV: error reading xml: Invalid character in the given encoding. Line 6533, position 41.


Line 6533 from the Yahoo grabber. I havent looked at it with a hex editor yet.

Code:

<desc lang="en">Sabrina writes an expos‚ on the shady dealings of a local politician.</desc>

And the xmltv grabbed version of the same line.

Code:

<desc lang="en">(2002-02-01) Sabrina writes an exposé on the shady dealings of a local politician.</desc>

The comma wouldnt cause a problem so it must be hiding an escape character or something. When I get a chance I’ll see if I can find out what the problem actually is, but it will need to to be addressed in the download util. I could strip the problem from the file, but the resulting words would be hard to read.
Jim

[proteus5]

Probably worth hitting the 'update epg' button, then zip and attach the config.exe.log so we can see what it's complaining about.

Here's my log file. I also notice this in the XML file when I double click it to open it. Hope this helps.......

- <programme start="20070701033500" stop="20070701043500" channel="003">
<title lang="en">CSI: Miami</title>
<sub-title lang="en">Free Fall</sub-title>
<desc lang="en">The CSI team must find whoever is trying to kill a couple, recently released from jail, whose misdeeds turned them into media darlings.</desc>
<date>20060410</date>
<category lang="en">Cri

The XML page cannot be displayed
Cannot view XML input using XSL style sheet. Please correct the error and then click the Refresh button, or try again later.


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Whitespace is not allowed at this location. Error processing resource 'file:///C:/epg/ytvapi_xml_1[1].0.0/yapixml.xml'. Li...

<title lang="en">Beautiful Homes & Great Estates</title>
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[pBS]

"Sabrina writes an expos‚" which should be "Sabrina writes an exposé‚"

it's the "é" special character...usualy replaced with the base letter..[e] for readability...or could use expose', [e then ']

there's a list of the invalid chars to replace somewhere here...can't find it at the moment...but yea, any accents, tilde's, colons, semi-colons, etc...