--- Omar Egan <oegan72@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> How does one build a grabber? Where do you usually get the
> information for country listings? I have a bit of pull with the local
> cable provider here maybe I can get the listing information from them
> and "contribute" it to the project in hopes of getting an El Salvador
> grabber built... :-)
If you can get the cooperation of the cable provider (assuming *THEY*
have the data, they may not) they can make the data avaialble via FTP
or SOAP and writing the "grabber" is really just a converter to XMLTV's
format.
If you have to write a true grabber, that's much harder. Best way to
learn is to look at the code for the existing ones.
For web-scraping, I like to use Web::Mechanize and HTML::TableExtract.
That's what I used for tv_grab_na_icons (not a listing grabber, it just
gets icons) and other projects (like reporting available cell-phone
minutes)
There are calls in the XMLTV module that help enforce valid XMLTV
output. Best is to pick a grabber (or two) and figure out how they
work. Also read all the project docs of course.
Robert
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