[mythtv-users] Scraping

[Rich West]

Kevin Slater wrote:
>
> On 7/9/07, *Rich West* <Rich.West at wesmo.com
> <mailto:Rich.West at wesmo.com>> wrote:
>
>     I fear asking this after having read through the piles of email
>     related
>     to the zap2it panic, but since the need has arisen (I can't get guide
>     data, and I expect that things will get even less stable as we
>     approach
>     September), I was wondering if anyone has made any efforts toward
>     scraping data off of the DirecTV site for DirecTV subscribers?
>
>
> When I log on to my DirecTV account page and go to the listings, I see
> a block indicating flash is needed. (I have a flash blocker turned on
> by default.) I think screen scraping that would be a lot more
> difficult than if it were just html.
>
> I just tried it anonymously with my zip code using Lynx (ncurses
> command line browser - no flash) and while I can see some listing data
> I can't get any sort of usable details.
>
> The other problem, as have been previously noted, is that it's likely
> a violation of your contract with DirecTV to screen scrape the
> listings for use on some (any) other system.
>
> ...Kevin


I've got FlashBlock enabled as well, but it's not displaying my guide in
flash.  It is in a frame, though.  If you view just the frame:
http://www.directv.com/DTVAPP/epg/theGuideGridCache.jsp?tz=e&l=&dma=&z=&c=&ct=&sml=1&sp=n&sd=a&gd=190&gh=17&cg=c

You can see the raw HTML.

-Rich