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David Lees | 7 Feb 18:58
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[tvdevel] Schedule Changes

Hi,


This is my first posting to this mailing list, I apologise if my question has been asked before but the list archive page at http://www.bleb.org/pipermail/tvdevel/ does not seem to allow me to view it (403 Forbidden).

I was wondering if there is any attempt to update the XML listings with late changes once they are made available on the site. For example, BBC One might change their Saturday schedule on Thursday, if I was to download bbc1.xml from the '1' directory on Friday, might it reflect the changes to Saturdays schedule? I realise some of this depends on the data providers but I was wondering if you even tried to keep up with the changes.

Thanks for a great service.
David.
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get-films | 2 Feb 12:18

[tvdevel] new film download site

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get-films | 2 Feb 00:15

[tvdevel] new film download site

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Adam Dawes | 25 Jan 22:24

[tvdevel] New freeware application: TellyPrompter

Hello bleb.org-powered TV fans,

I thought I would let you all know about a new freeware application I've 
just released, which is powered by the listings from bleb.org. It's called 
TellyPrompter.

The main purpose of the application is to allow you to set up "favourites" 
which identify programmes you want to watch. These favourites can be simple, 
such as just matching a programme name, or more complex, such as including 
various patterns of words through the programme title and description. 
Favourites can be applied to the entire set of programme listings, or 
restricted to particular channels, days and times.

Once you have configured your favourites, TellyPrompter will display a 
notification window each time you log in to Windows, telling you about all 
the matching programmes coming up during the next week. This way you can 
always ensure that you catch every programme you want to watch, including 
those awkward "one off" programmes (Louis Theroux, anyone?) and the first 
episodes of new series, without finding that one has slipped past without 
you realising.

TellyPrompter also offers a simple but useful listings browser, a powerful 
programme search facility, and extra information about programmes and 
channels. It comes with pre-set channel information for analogue, Sky, 
Virgin Media and Freeview TV platforms, and can automatically filter the 
available channels and display the appropriate channel numbers based on the 
platform you select.

If you'd like to read more about it, see some screenshots or download the 
application, please visit my web site:

www.adamdawes.com

System requirements: Windows 98, Me, 2000, XP, 2003 or Vista, .NET Framework 
2.0 (boo, hiss, yes I know, but it was the only way) and an internet 
connection, preferably broadband.

If anyone has any comments or suggestions or encounters any problems, I'd 
love to hear about them! I can be contacted at adam <at> adamdawes.com (or post 
to this mailing list).

Happy TV watching!

Adam
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Steven Goodwin | 9 Jan 17:32
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[tvdevel] Bleb equivalent for radio schedules?

Hi guys,

Does anyone know of a site (just as cool and groovy as bleb) but holding
radio listings? I could scrape the individual station sites into TVXML
but it might have already been done.

If not I might have to start a new project... :)

Steev
(acknowledges it's slightly OT, but hopes he got away with it!)

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Adam Dawes | 4 Oct 16:18

[tvdevel] A couple of questions

Hello,

I only discovered this mailing list and the TV feed on bleb.org within the
last few days, so please excuse me if these are old questions that have been
asked before... My questions are:

1. How can I get a list of all channels supported by the bleb.org feed?

I'm currently getting the list by opening the URL
"http://www.bleb.org/tv/data/listings/0/" and parsing all the .xml filenames
that are in the page that is returned. This works but I can't help but think
there must be a better way to get this information. Any suggestions?

2. How can I get channel information in the bleb-format feed?

I decided that the best feed for my application to use is the "bleb" format
feed rather than the XMLTV format feed. The main reasons for this are that
it includes some data not included within the XMLTV feed (for example, the
<flags> XML element) and that the channel IDs match up with those used on
the request URL (e.g., "bbc1" instead of "south.bbc1.bbc.co.uk" in the XMLTV
data). However, there are two very useful pieces of information in the XMLTV
data that aren't included within the bleb format file, specifically the
channel/display-name and channel/icon elements. I would like both of these
values in my application.

To obtain them, I request data for all channels for today only in XMLTV
format. I then take advantage of the fact that the channels are returned in
the XML file in the same order that I request them on the URL (as there's
nothing else I can see that links each XMLTV channel XML element back to the
channel ID requested in the URL) and read out the display-name and icon src
for each channel. Once this is done, I request the data again in bleb
format, and use this to populate the programme data in my application.

Is there a better way to do this? Is there a way to get the display-name and
icon URL in the bleb-format file?

Many thanks in advance for any assistance anyone can offer!

Adam
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Steven Goodwin | 3 Oct 14:44
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[tvdevel] Yet another TV guide viewer

But this time, it's mine :)

This is a WARP-compatible applet that gives personalised TV listings for
a number of users by searching for their specific search terms in the
text of the listing data.

There is a live demo at,

   http://www.warpdemo.homelinux.net/tv.php

Full installation information can be found in the INSTALL file.

Source archive at
http://www.warpdemo.homelinux.net/release/warp-applet-tvguide-complete-v1.00a.tar.gz

Please report bugs in the docs/code to yours truly, and let me know your
thoughts!

Steev

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Andrew Flegg | 21 Aug 18:14
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[tvdevel] Bug fix in +1 channels in XMLTV downloads

Hi,

The +1 feature of XMLTV bulk downloads (allows you to create a +1
version of any channel) only worked on the first day. This has now
been fixed.

Nobody noticed or complained though (I was trying to work out why
Freevo didn't want to record "My Name Is Earl" at 23:00 on Channel
4+1), so it couldn't have been too catastrophic.

Shout if you see any problems.

Cheers,

Andrew

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Andrew Flegg | 5 Apr 10:33
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Re: [tvdevel] ORB PROGRAME - FAILURE TO DOWNLOAD TV LISTINGS FROM BLEB

On 4/5/07, Simon Kemp <kempsimon <at> talk21.com> wrote:
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> When I try to set the system up in Orb I get an error message stating
> that I cannot connect to your web site in order to download this
> information.  To judge by Orb's Community forums page, several other
> users also have the same problem.

Interesting.

> Were you aware that Orb uses your web page in order to obtain data for
> users of this programme?  Were you also aware that Orb users cannot
> download this information from your site at the present time?

Nope, I wasn't aware - but I wouldn't need or expect to be. I've
copied in the XML mailing list for the listings: is anyone else having
problems download stuff from bleb at the moment?

The only thing I can suggest, Simon, is that you ask the Orb
developers to raise it on the mailing list with details of the URL
that is attempted to be downloaded, the errors that are received and
the unique identifier in the URL or user-agent which will allow me to
track down the logs:

    http://www.bleb.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tvdevel

Cheers,

Andrew

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Ralph B | 27 Mar 14:02

[tvdevel] TV Listings from BDS

As an experiment, I registered at http://www.bds.tv for free listings
access for personal use only - i.e. no republication. It was reasonably
painless, although the registration confirmation message took about 24hrs
to arrive.

They carry (i.e. I can view there) listings for BBC, Five, Flextech (who
they?), ITV and UKTV channels. (No C4 or Sky listings that I could find).

By default, the listings are in plain ASCII text only - which would
probably be a little bothersome (but not impossible) to parse. They say
they can also deliver XML, comma-delimited, ASCII-tagged or RTF formatted
data, but for that you have to contact their sales department (and most
likely part with some dosh).

Hope that helps.

Ralph.

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Nicolas B | 22 Mar 23:37
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[tvdevel] BDS and Legal Stuff

Hi there,

Apologies for the dumb question. But I got in touch with the BDS in order to get listing which I could publish on a website. The BDS has come back to me with an offer of royalties for BBC and ITV listings and £300 per other channel per annum.
Reading through the mailing list, my understanding is that more or less everybody has its own website with listing on them and I was wondering if anyone was paying the £300 per channel. Because even if they are personnel website, anyone can access the info and I would therefore think that this is publishing.
However I am more incline to think that there is a fine line between publishing and publishing which I'm not getting. I hope someone will be able to help me out on this one.

Many thanks,
Nic.

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