[mythtv] TV-Listings Grabber

Ma Begaj derliebegott at gmail.com
Mon Aug 6 13:34:17 UTC 2007


german grabber was removed because we were not sure about the legal
situation and we are still not ...

so be careful, get in the beginning all the information before you
start the work.

M.



2007/8/6, Nick Morrott <knowledgejunkie at gmail.com>:
> On 06/08/07, Stuart Morgan <stuart at tase.co.uk> wrote:
> > On Monday 06 August 2007 02:26:55 Andreas wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > where would I find information about writing my own tv-listings grabber and
> > > how to integrate it with MythTV? I think I have read somewhere that the
> > > listings have to be in the XMLTV format, but how do I get them from there
> > > into the MythTV database?
> >
> > If you intend to distribute this grabber then your best course would be to
> > create an XMLTV grabber adhering to the xmltv specification.
> > http://xmltv.org/wiki/howtowriteagrabber.html
>
> Important caveat: if you want the grabber distributed with XMLTV, you
> must make sure that it is not breaking any terms and conditions of the
> listings source or any laws of the country where the listings data
> originates. The German tv_grab_de_tvtoday grabber was removed from the
> XMLTV distribution due to such problems some weeks ago.
>
> --
> Nick
>
> MythTV Official wiki:
> http://mythtv.org/wiki/
> MythTV users list archive:
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users
>
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