[mythtv-users] tv_grab_au which script?

Matthew Phillips mythtv at mattp.name
Thu Aug 4 13:12:29 UTC 2005


On 04/08/2005, at 10:31 PM, David Collett wrote:

> Does anyone
> know if all the other tv_grab_* scripts are html-scraping hacks of
> dubious legallity like this one???

A random sample of the scripts for France and Finland indicates that,  
yes, HTML-scraping is not unusual :/

tv_grab_fi: "Output TV listings for several channels available in  
Finland.
The data comes from www.katso.fi which is owned by one of the largest
companies providing TV listings in Finland.  The grabber relies on
parsing HTML so it might stop working at any time."

So it may be hackish or dubious, but at least we're not breaking any  
new ground here ;)

Matt.



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