2008 listings

Drewcus · Post by **Drewcus** » Sun Dec 23, 2007 11:48 am

Hi everyone a newbie to this forum.

I've been using XMLTV Gui Version 3.08.02w for a couple of months and it's been great no issues at all using the uk_rt grabber. Just starting to notice now that the 2008 listing are not showing....does anyone know why and what i have to do to resolve this.

any help much appreciated.

Drew[/b]

Post by **alanbirtles** » Sun Dec 23, 2007 2:14 pm

the listings are not available yet

Drewcus · Post by **Drewcus** » Sun Dec 23, 2007 5:17 pm

hi thanks for the reply & for all the work u've put into the grabber.

it's just that the RT web site shows listings up to the 5th Jan and i've always been able to d/l nearly 2 weeks epg.

cheers

Drewcus · Post by **Drewcus** » Mon Dec 24, 2007 1:40 pm

still no joy the xml file each time only shows the 19th - 31st Dec just tried again?

any ideas?

thanks

Drewcus · Post by **Drewcus** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 2:08 pm

just tried UK_Bleb and that downloads listings for 2008? up to 03/01/2008

is there somrting up with the RT site?

cheers

Bacon2002 · Post by **Bacon2002** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 1:04 pm

Hi,

Great program, I've been using it with WebShifter and its brilliant, thanks.

I am having the same problem with Radio Times data only providing data up to 31st Dec 07, do you have any info on what the issue is? If it's likely to start working again etc?

Many thanks, happy new year and thanks again for a great program.

David

sheepthief · Post by **sheepthief** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 7:37 pm

It's mentioned on the Radio Times forums here, though with no input from anyone official yet: http://talk.radiotimes.com/forum.jspa?forumID=31

Post by **alanbirtles** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 10:38 pm

from radio times:

Hi Alan,

Hope you had a good Christmas.

Radiotimes.com recently moved to new hosting and the xmltv data feed is temporarily unavailable. We're working on this as a priority and will have it back up and running again shortly.

I'll get in touch once again once our infrastructure team have sorted it out.

Thanks

Simon

Drewcus · Post by **Drewcus** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 1:58 am

Hey That's great news.....at least i know now it wasn't something i did

Let's hope it's fixed soon.

Thanks for the update..

Bacon2002 · Post by **Bacon2002** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 9:09 am

Hi,

Great news, thanks for the update.

It's a brilliant service that RT provide especially when combined with your excellent XMLTV Grabber.

Cheers,

David

martint123 · Post by **martint123** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 11:40 pm

I'm getting nervous. Weekends, bank holidays, new web host.....
Anyone any good at screen scrapers?

sheepthief · Post by **sheepthief** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 9:38 pm

martint123 wrote:I'm getting nervous. Weekends, bank holidays, new web host.....
Anyone any good at screen scrapers?

Windows users might like to look at http://www.geocities.com/pclareuk/DVBGuide/ though it seems to lack the categorisation that you get from RT. I don't really have the time to look at it properly right now. The application I'm using for recording, Webscheduler, doesn't seem to like the data much, but it looks better after having been put through XMLTV GUI.

Given the lack of response from RT I'm not inclined to trust them in future even if it does get sorted out this time, so I'd be glad of any info regarding other alternatives.

nigelpercy · Post by **nigelpercy** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 2:20 pm

sheepthief wrote: Windows users might like to look at http://www.geocities.com/pclareuk/DVBGuide/ though it seems to lack the categorisation that you get from RT. I don't really have the time to look at it properly right now. The application I'm using for recording, Webscheduler, doesn't seem to like the data much, but it looks better after having been put through XMLTV GUI.

I am using Web Scheduler 5.0.0.15 and the DVBGuide XML loaded straight into Web Scheduler. Just needed to re-map a few of the channels where the name differed from the Radio Times XML. The categorisation isn't as good and the descriptions aren't as verbose, but I think I'm going to stick with this source for the time being.

martint123 · Post by **martint123** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 12:06 pm

Well someone is doing something - the http://xmltv.radiotimes.com/xmltv/ directory is giving a graphical 404 not found page now

I've managed to use a combination of using the bleb grabber, dvb epg and a bit of awk to provide some epg for my gbpvr box.

martint123 · Post by **martint123** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 5:36 pm

14 days worth grabbed. Phew. Thanks RT for the fix.