XMLTV grabber for Greece, take 2

I had previously written an XMLTV grabber for Greece that had several shortcomings (problems with character encodings and scheduling of programmes after midnight), and left it there. Now, a from-scratch rewritten version is available: XMLTV grabber for Greece.

This version uses the improved XMLTV api, hence it should be available in applications that use tv_find_grabbers. Currently it extracts the following items from the Nova site:

Program title
Program description
Start time
Repeat status
Rating
Categories

Optionally, in slow mode it also extracts the following items if they are available:

Synopsis
Image
Credits
Year of production
Duration

I would be interested in hearing from anyone that uses it in non-UTF8 environments (e.g. Windows users). Note that you may need to pass the results through tv_sort in some cases.

Many thanks to vrypan for providing the motive for completing this.

@ Tuesday, 26 February 2008, 12:39 in (Software) - 7 comments

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Comment by thagg1975on Wednesday, 27 February 2008, 11:53

Hi
Glad you got motivated to start a new version; I've been patching the old one and another one I found in the net for the last 2+ years, without knowing perl :((( I'll give a try on this one, and let you know.

Thanks a lot!
PS: running ubuntu 7.04/mythtv 0.20. Started with KnoppMyth/mythtv 0.16 :))
Comment by Stefanon Wednesday, 20 August 2008, 10:04

Hi Tassos,
I'm using tvxb myself for the Greek channels, but I would like to test your xmltv file. I'm using Windows, but can't get your file to be recognized by xmltv. Do you know what is wrong?
thanx
Comment by dimion Saturday, 13 September 2008, 09:24

Hi guys

I'm trying to use the file on a Mac Leopard. The xmltv runs fine but I have no idea how to include the customized grabber into it. I know it's a silly question but can somebody give me a hint on that ?

Thanx
Comment by Anonymouson Monday, 24 November 2008, 12:46

Ευχαριστούμε φίλε μου!
Comment by Danison Monday, 09 February 2009, 01:35

hi there i'm trying to 'tv_grab_el --configure --config-file /home/jrn23/.mythtv/mythtv.xmltv' but i get the following error

"root@ /usr/bin > tv_grab_el --configure --config-file /home/jrn23/.mythtv/mythtv.xmltv
Can't locate IO/Wrap.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i686-linux /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/i686-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i686-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/XMLTV/Options.pm line 40.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/XMLTV/Options.pm line 40.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/bin/tv_grab_el line 10.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/bin/tv_grab_el line 10."

could you please help me solve this issue? my distro is gentoo...
Comment by Danis on Monday, 09 February 2009, 12:26

hi there i'm writing in addition to my previous post...if you'd like to email me my mail is
dpetka2001 (at) gmail (dot) com...thanks in advance...
Comment by thagg1975on Friday, 22 May 2009, 16:41

Hi again, thanks once more for this. Now working on new mythtv (0.21+patches) on gentoo linux.

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