Hi
Is there a good xmltv database available?
Thanks in advance

Do you mean like Showtime?

Yeah, just like showtime
I don't like the showtime's interface, so want to write my own program.
Is there a database to get the program for several (e.g. 3) days?

Showtime uses XMLTV, so why not take a look at the source code? Then you can see how it retrieves and uses the data.

Yeah, I noticed it.... But the look at xmltvepg.be. The file are there but there may be problems in the future. I'm looking for an alternate server...

ok. the files on the server are alright.
but I'm still looking for a mirror

Yea, can see where youre getting at

It an industry, enough said however there are plenty of crawlers available - only I havent seen any BE ones. After checking there is a commercial alternative though.

Your direct approach would be to download and parse the listings directly from a service provider. Check out the XMLTV packages for *nix distributions, it is python dependant and works in most platforms - besides Maemo atm.

Personally ive been doing the same as you, making from scratch an UI for xmltv feeds - my application however relies on user to have either a service provider as the one you point out or to create the xml file for themself with the parsers available.


XMLTV grabber EU (BE language available EUR 18 / year)

The grabbers are quite CPU extensive - but should there be anyone outthere willing to port xmltv python packages, Please say so

Btw. I think I found the mirrors....

from here: http://www.pli-images.org/getfile.ph...&file_id=10729

I'll check 'em out.. I hope they'll be working - I'd like to keep my program free of charge

<source type="gen_xmltv" channels="http://www.xmltvepg.be/rytec.channels.xml.gz">
<description>Rytec Portugal XMLTV</description>
<url>http://www.xmltvepg.be/rytecxmltvportugal.gz</url>
<url>http://www.world-of-satellite.com/rytecxmltvportugal.gz</url>
<url>http://www.xmltvepg.nl/rytecxmltvportugal.gz</url>
<url>http://www.tm800hd.co.uk/rytec/rytecxmltvportugal.gz</url>
<url>http://rytec.tman.nl/rytecxmltvportugal.gz</url>
<url>http://xmltvepg.isgreat.org/rytecxmltvportugal.gz</url>
</source>

How did you convert the xmltv data to strings? could you tell which src files do that?

Here is the latest, best-option for embedded systems, the textreader. Previously this code was written, parsing the xmlpp::Element / xmlpp::NodeList structure - see secondary links

xmlpp::TextReader

NodeLists:

Flow of parser
foreach Channel
parse Program