Tassos Bassoukos

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XMLTV grabber for Greece

Some time ago I installed MythTV on my computer. One major problem was that it could not find schedules for the greek television stations. As it used XMLTV as the schedule grabber, I went and wrote one for Greece.

So, here it is: tv_grab_el will sceen-scrape NOVA's website and generate a XMLTV - compatible file.

Please be gentle, as a full, slow search for 7 channels will download about 10 megabytes. Also take note that I haven't managed to keep up with the actual XMLTV progress for several months, so while it works for me, it may not work for you.

Notes: Don't forget that you will need an XMLTV installation to run this. Try the -cache option, it should increase the speed of subsequent downloads, with the drawback that you will miss updates on the schedules. The documentation is embedded in the file. I've have had problem reports when running on Windows.

@ Sunday, 14 November 2004, 16:49 in (Software) - 5 comments

Thank you Poland! >> << This is definately not work-safe

Comments
  1. Comment by hary wilke on Monday, 15 November 2004, 16:08
    hey thanks! I've been looking at MythTV, but thought that it would be a bit of a waste without being able to have listings for shows. Now i'm going to look closer at setting up my own MythTV box.
  2. Comment by George Simos on Sunday, 15 May 2005, 20:07
    Hello Tasos,

    I also live in Salonica, and found the tv grabber listings of yours for xmltv. I am new to xmltv and I don't know how to use it, please send me some info at blackstar74 at gmail dot com (hope you got it) !
  3. Comment by Georgeon Thursday, 15 December 2005, 03:53
    The link isnt valid anymore.Would you please correct it?
  4. Comment by Tassos Bassoukos on Friday, 16 December 2005, 12:10
    Apologies for the misplacement, the server got updated and I apparently managed to miss some files while upgrading. The links should be fixed
  5. Comment by Anonymouson Friday, 05 September 2008, 12:38
    Hi! Thanks for doing this hard work. However the link to the grabber is currently broken. Would you mind updating it ?
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