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) - 1 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 :))

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