zap2xml - a free zap2it scraper

[tony1234]

To anyone who've downloaded the latest update: Do the cache still works for you?
I get: Deleting: cache/1214776800000.html.gz (expired)
on every file downloaded and the cache directory is always empty at the end.

[Mike S]

Works normally for me

[fla]

To anyone who've downloaded the latest update: Do the cache still works for you?
I get: Deleting: cache/1214776800000.html.gz (expired)
on every file downloaded and the cache directory is always empty at the end.

I get this too and investigated a bit. If you have one title where pgmID is set to nothing then the entire six hour block is marked as expired and later deleted. I have exactly one such empty pgmId per six hour block and therefor all the cache files are marked as expired and deleted.

Code:

<span class="zc-program-title"><a href="/tvlistings/ZCProgram.do?method=getDetail&pgmId=&sch=&stn=17195&chn="></a></span>

This is the code that requires one or more words for pgmId:

Code:

if ($inTitle) {
    $cs = $rcs;
    $cp = $sch = $attr->{href};
    $cp =~ s/.*pgmId=(\w+).*/$1/;
    $sch =~ s/.*sch=(\w+).*/$1/;
    if ($cp =~ /pgmId/) {
        $cp = $cs = $sch = -1;
        $expired++;
        $exp = 1;
    }

Accents seem to be broken now and I get pages of the following warnings. This used to work.

Code:

Wide character in print at C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\zap2xml.pl line 347.
Wide character in print at C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\zap2xml.pl line 349.
Wide character in print at C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\zap2xml.pl line 350.

[gunterhausfrau]

My xmltv.xml doesn't look to be empty (opened it looks like it is fine) but the tv listings are all empty?!?

argh.

any thoughts?

looked at the update while running and see
"expired programs: 7" if I change the number of days to collect from 7 to 14 this number also changes. It was working earlier this week, did something change?

again. Thanks.

[tonyintn]

Yep all of mine are showing expired also guide is not showing properly anymore.

[gunterhausfrau]

glad to hear it is not just me, or really really not glad to hear it is just me.

funny, from the xml file it looks to be updating and I see shows listed in the future, but they just not getting into GBPVR. Did a date format change? more digging is required I guess.

update:
found that there is a new version of the pearl script (and possibly the exe, I use the pearl) there was a change to the zap2it website, so in the last few days there was a new version. Go to the web page, http://zap2xml.110mb.com/ get the new version, should work. Did for me (after a bit of poking).

hope it works for you...

[fla]

The new version works but leaves the cache directory empty.

[ww4397]

I'm not sure what is going on, but after an EPG update I always have 14 days of data. However, after yesterday's update, I had 13 days. Now, after today's update I only have 12 days.

I tried deleting the Zap2xml cache and letting it rebuild anew, but that didn't change anything -- still just 12 days of data.

I'm using the latest (6/26/08) .exe version of Zap2xml.

PS: I sent a message to the author.

[Spamdini]

I'm not sure what is going on, but after an EPG update I always have 14 days of data. However, after yesterday's update, I had 13 days. Now, after today's update I only have 12 days.

I noticed this too. If I go to zap2it.com, they only have my listings through the afternoon of July 10 the same as GBPVR is showing. So the problem is with zap2it not zap2xml.

[par38lamp]

I am having problems as well. It rolls through Parsing 1/54 to 43/54, then says logging in, and the continues to 56/56, writes the xml file, and closes.

This occured with both the May version, and the new June 26 version.

I am using the -d 14 modifier.

...update...I opened a command prompt and manually ran zap2xml, and it downloaded everything, and the TV guide is full of data...

And then I ran my .bat file (same as the manual command line) and it didn't work. Only parsed things, and then wrote an xml file. Manually tried it, failed. Logged into zap2it and logged out, tried again, failed.