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Comment on Top TV schedule in XMLTV format by bluegray

bluegray — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 13:15:27 +0000

@Andrew
Will see. DSTV is constantly making it difficult to write a scraper script, so don’t hold your breath… it’s not worth the trouble.

@Andre
Yup, dates are wrong with the jump to the new year because the TopTV schedule does not include the year with the scheduled time, so I have to guess. But should be ok now. Will see if I can implement a workaround for next year ;)

Comment on Top TV schedule in XMLTV format by Andre

Andre — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 07:31:11 +0000

Hi, thanks for the xmltv generator, I recently got TopTV and had to schecule recordings manually, now I can just point and click. :-)
I use MythTV, but I noticed that the dates for Jan are all for 2011 and not 2012.
At the moment I use sed to fix it before I import it:
sed -i ‘s/=”201101/=”201201/g’ xmltv_toptv_all.xml

Comment on Top TV schedule in XMLTV format by Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 12:30:32 +0000

Any thoughts on creating a guide for DSTV? ZAZMLTV (Robert) seems to be hanging up his guns so to speak. I am battling to find another site that I can use for Mythtv.

Comment on Top TV schedule in XMLTV format by Tim

Tim — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 15:57:17 +0000

Thank you so much for this service. No one else is providing guide data for TopTV any more. Was getting a bit desperate to find guide data for my media center.

Comment on Top TV schedule in XMLTV format by bluegray

bluegray — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 07:56:51 +0000

The xml is generated by the python modules and the quotes used are beyond my control. Besides, it’s perfectly valid: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2045257/are-single-quotes-valid-in-a-doctype

The xml-stylesheet line is also valid, where are you trying to import it to?

Comment on Top TV schedule in XMLTV format by ViCoM

ViCoM — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 15:48:52 +0000

oops html tags….

The line with xml-stylesheet

Comment on Top TV schedule in XMLTV format by ViCoM

ViCoM — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 15:45:48 +0000

Awesome to have the guide back. I’fve picked up some issues though
Can you remove the line

it fails to import with that line even IE view doesn’t format properly with that line in.

also your DOCTYPE tv SYSTEM reference to the DTD file must be in ” ” and not ‘ ‘

Comment on Top TV schedule in XMLTV format by bluegray

bluegray — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 10:46:56 +0000

Sure, i’ll have a look at it – send it to bluegraydragon at gmail dot com

Comment on Top TV schedule in XMLTV format by Hans

Hans — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 08:13:48 +0000

Hi, I took this opportunity to learn a bit of XPath parsing in Python using the lxml lib. If you are interested I have a very much alpha parser for the new site that kinda works.

Comment on Top TV schedule in XMLTV format by bluegray

bluegray — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 12:39:37 +0000

Yeah, I don’t expect any help from TopTV ;)
Thanks for offering help, but I’ll have to look into the changes myself.

I don’t have an ETA, I’ll get to it when I get to it – seeing as they made quite a few changes recently over a few weeks, I think it’s best to let them settle before I update.