Aertel RSS feed

Funkygreendogs

Anyone know if there is such a thing???
Or how i might go about scanning the aertel site for the tv listings??
or better stuill is there ANY site / service that provides this up-to-date info?

aidan_walsh

www.digiguide.com; Google for XMLTV

parasite

you can use xmltv to grab xmltv listings from radiotimes.com

oneweb

doodle_sketch wrote:

www.digiguide.com

I hereby endorse this product and/or service
WEEKS of advance program listings, constantly updated.

Funkygreendogs

I should of added that i intend to display this information on a visual basic program im making, so any program that does it for me is useless

Eoin

This won't be pretty, but if you are using VB then maybe look at using the MS XML Parser - this can get the contents of a page and return it in a string. Check out this article on ASPFAQ.com. If it suits what you are looking for, it should be easy enough to implement.

Funkygreendogs

Yea man i know what your on about, ive source code that does that already, but its only good for rss feeds, so it can grab information between the <title> and </title> headings, but the thing is, for a plain .html file its impossible to scan the string and find a unique character or word, that signifies the start of the text you are looking for. Like on the aertel .html file, if i scan the html and add it as a string then scan the string for the info, i need to grab just the films and maybe a description or two, but also drop all the crap out of it like <b> </b> tags, this is seriously hard coz there is nothing unique to signify the start of what im looking for or the end. ( hope you understood all that )
now if they had some reference to a special CSS style for the film titles or something like that it might be possible but there is none on their site....
Any ideas???? im all ears

Eoin

I know exactly what you are talking about - I wrote a similar application a couple of years ago, and spent half my time stripping out HTML, it was very annoying.

TBH, it sounds like you are going to have problems unless you can find a feed out there that has exactly the information you need.

parasite

Use xmltv that i linked to earlier, there's loads of programs at that link, so it must be relatively easy to design programs around. Basically there's no need for you to be stripping aertel web pages, the radiotimes xmltv feed provides all the data you need (including irish channels) ..sigh

chunga668

I have a working demo of an Aertel feed at my site http://RossN.Com
I'm sorry I cannot allow you to see anything but page 101 due to copyrite restrictions.
On RTE.IE they clearly state that you can use their data for personal use.
The code will be posted in the downloads area of RossN.Com later tonight.
Here's the link...
http://rossn.com/aertel/index.php?page=101

It's pretty clean but there are some errors here and there.
Someone above mentioned that they don't really have any clear delimiters on their HTML to let you know where the data begins.
This makes parsing it a bit difficult.
I used PHP to build this but if you have a bit of RegEX & basic XML you could do it in just about any language.
Have Fun!
RossN

stevenmu

XMLTV gets an xml feed from radiotimes so you can probably do the same, get their xml file, which should then be easy to parse into whatever form you need.