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Thread ID: 87702 2008-03-01 08:06:00 SkyTV Listings Source Erayd (23) PC World Chat
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645296 2008-03-01 12:22:00 I used xmlTVNZ from Reven and that was fine earlier this year... Got all the Sky channels without an issue...Mmm.... it may have been fine then, but it's dead now :groan:. Well, v2.5 is dead anyway. Erayd (23)
645297 2008-03-01 19:11:00 Mmm.... it may have been fine then, but it's dead now :groan:. Well, v2.5 is dead anyway. Ah, I had 2.1 running, hold up... I think mine broke when it updated to 2.2... Which now that I think of it was the day my media PC retired (had no really need for it) The_End_Of_Reality (334)
645298 2008-03-01 19:17:00 Bletch: knowing the sort of person you are, why don't you write your own which scrapes the data off Sky's website? somebody (208)
645299 2008-03-01 19:47:00 Looks like it's back to normal now :thumbs: CYaBro (73)
645300 2008-03-01 20:29:00 Bletch: knowing the sort of person you are, why don't you write your own which scrapes the data off Sky's website?Believe it or not, I was about to. I just couldn't find where the hell sky put the listings - that thing they call a website is far from easy to navigate.


Looks like it's back to normal now :thumbs:Yay :D
Erayd (23)
645301 2008-03-01 20:41:00 There is one here that extracts from Telstra Clear to create a XML file
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jberries (13063)
645302 2008-03-01 20:45:00 Sky's guide on their site is now encrypted to stop people from scraping the listings.
I think Reven's xmlTVNZ V3 is getting the Sky guide from TelstraClear's website so may not have all the channels.
CYaBro (73)
645303 2008-03-01 20:48:00 Sky's guide on their site is now encrypted to stop people from scraping the listings.Means nothing - if you can view it, then it's possible to scrape it. However from what I could see the guide simply didn't exist - and what doesn't exist can't be viewed... Erayd (23)
645304 2008-03-01 20:54:00 Means nothing - if you can view it, then it's possible to scrape it. However from what I could see the guide simply didn't exist - and what doesn't exist can't be viewed...

What do you mean it didn't exist?
What is this then? www.skytv.co.nz
That is their guide listing is it not???

If what you say is true I wonder why Reven hasn't been able to scrape the data?? Too much work??
CYaBro (73)
645305 2008-03-01 21:00:00 Interesting - it doesn't show in my browser. What I see is this (www.imagef1.net.nz). Possibly something to do with me running a very bleeding-edge browser (Opera 9.5 weekly dev snapshot).

Certainly explains why I couldn't find it though :rolleyes:.


If what you say is true I wonder why Reven hasn't been able to scrape the data?? Too much work??Possibly. Extracting guide data from a flash stream is a lot harder than getting it out of a standard webpage. It's doable, but isn't the worlds easiest feat to achieve.
Erayd (23)
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