Gerry Healy <gerry.k.healy@xxxxxxxxxx> moved upon the face of the 'Net and
spake thusly:
> I am sure this was mentioned somewhere before, but I have not been able
> to find it. Annoyingly the sourceforge search engine does not seem to
> work on the mailing list archives.
>
See the yahoo group "xmltv_aus" for info on one of the Australian
grabber projects. This one is "aiming off" --- it's based on the
unfinished xmltv 0.6 DTD in the expectation that xmltv 0.6 DTD will be
finished before the grabber is completed. (It already works for all
the FTA channels.)
> Are there any particular conventions that should be followed or
> avoided?
Cache the downloaded pages so that you don't bring attention to
yourself by fetching the same tv guide page a billion times a day.
You should only need to fetch the html for each page once, then work
off your local copy.
Some TV sites *will* block you if they notice frequent repetitive
accesses.
--cjb
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