Yahoo Go TV to XMLTV (via API)

[sub]

The "exposé" is probably best solved by having the grabber add this line at the very start of the xmltv file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>


As pBS says, there is a list of characters that need to be escaped in xml. '&' is replaced with '&amp;'. Common ones are:

< &lt; (Less than sign)
> &gt; (Greater than sign)
& &amp; (Ampersand sign)
" &quot; (Double quote

[Jim_]

"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...

Hi pBs, yea I kind of remember something about the xml output needing to use Unicode instead of ASCII or ISO, but I just cant remember any more about it.

Hopefully sub can fill us in or point Oz to a quick fix. I'm not a VB person.
I could write a utility to convert the ASCII code to a usable xml format, but Oz may be working on a fix as we type.

[Jim_]

The "exposé" is probably best solved by having the grabber add this line at the very start of the xmltv file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>


As pBS says, there is a list of characters that need to be escaped in xml. '&' is replaced with '&amp;'. Common ones are:

< &lt; (Less than sign)
> &gt; (Greater than sign)
& &amp; (Ampersand sign)
" &quot; (Double quote

I replied to page one before seeing your post on page two!
I knew there was an easy fix, THANKS!

Jim

[Jim_]

I've removed the patch from this post due to lack of activity, and confusion between this utility and whurlston's fully functional Yahoo EPG utility.

Check with -Oz- for updates to his utility.

[pBS]

disk network USA works fine, but dish network Houston doesn't work...
also, no local air channels? or do i have to make do with the ones in the dish lineup? [no problem if i can get them to work]
mine's choking on the transition from channels to listings:

<display-name lang="en">NUEVA</display-name>
</channel>
<channel id="9781">
<display-name lang="en">BOTT</display-name>
</channel>
<channel id="9800">
<display-name lang="en">SPOMESS</display-name>
</channel>
<channel id="9801">
<display-name lang="en">SPOMESS</display-name>
</channel>
<channel id="9850">
<display-name lang="en">KBSAM</display-name>
</channel><programme start="20070630000000" stop="20070630010000" channel="084">
<title lang="en">House and Home</title>
<date>19990619</date>
<category lang="en">Shopping</category>
<category lang="en">House/garden</category>
</programme> the bold stuff is all that makes it into the xml with the Dish Houston provider...

notice no CRLF at end of channels?
gives me runtime error 9 'subscript out of range'

hmmm,could it be that there are duplicate channel numbers? 2,8,11,11,13,13,etc.?


and man, that patch takes forever to run on my guide!
also i would suggest replacing the " double quotes in the xml too..[they are in there quite often]

[sub]

notice no CRLF at end of channels?

Thats ok, whitespace between tags is ignored - though it does make for ugly reading.

hmmm,could it be that there are duplicate channel numbers? 2,8,11,11,13,13,etc.?

Yes, most likely.

also i would suggest replacing the " double quotes in the xml too..[they are in there quite often]

Double quotes only need to be escaped within the data, not surrounding attribute values (like lang="en" or channel="084").

[proteus5]

Here's a working(?) patch with the source code.
extract to the same folder as the -Oz- utility and run Patch.exe after downloading your epg file.
It will read yapixml.xml and output a file called Patched.xml
configure gbpvr to use Patched.xml as the xmltv epg file.

You can also call Patch.exe after the -Oz- utility in UpdateEPG.bat

Jim,

I ran your patch against Oz's file, and am able to import your patched file into GBPVR and get a full channel lineup, and 14 days of EPG data. Thanks....

For me the Yahoo grabber works better that the Titan grabber as Titan still lists a few channels that have long since been removed from my Comcast. That makes me wonder just how accurate Titan really is.

Again thanks for all your work on solving the EPG problem.!!!

Robert

[PVR4ME]

Nicely done on this EPG grabber. Thanks for your time and effort. Everything worked good as far as listings, but the time is off (6 hours in my case). I'm assuming this may have to do with the UTC value. Any prospects of adding the "UTC" text to the end of the start and stop times to possibly correct this? Thanks!

Originally Posted by sub
If the date/times are UTC, them mark them as UTC and GB-PVR will take care of converting them to local times.

<programme channel="13501" start="20070626200000 UTC">

BTW, also probably a good idea to specify the end time on programmes.

[proteus5]

Nicely done on this EPG grabber. Thanks for your time and effort. Everything worked good as far as listings, but the time is off (6 hours in my case). I'm assuming this may have to do with the UTC value. Any prospects of adding the "UTC" text to the end of the start and stop times to possibly correct this? Thanks!

ahh yes just noticed this myself. everything looks good after using Jim's patch, but times are off by 4 hours.

Thanks again for all your work, and I'm sure there will be a remedy for this in no time.

Robert

[Jim_]

The patch in post #44 has been updated to fix the timezone issue.
http://forums.gbpvr.com/showpost.php?p=2...stcount=44