Re: Internet based image channel guides?

Good luck... when I researched this a while back, I discovered there
are no free guide data sources for the US, as the data is copyrighted
by Tribune Media Services. Schedules Direct sells monthly
subscriptions to it: http://www.schedulesdirect.org/membershiplevels
Otherwise you're stuck with legally-dubious screen scrapers that could
break or be blocked at any time.

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Fiasco <dgvollmer@gmail.com> wrote:
> How about a channel listing guide in rss form.  That's what I'm
> scouring the innerwebs for now.  I can parse it w/ my apache server
> and build guide images in perl and gimp to serve up to my cd
> interface.
>
>
> On Jun 16, 11:55 pm, Jarrod Bell <jar...@guilink.com> wrote:
>> OK so it looks like you would need more than just PHP. Did a quick
>> google search any everything is parsing data from something running in
>> shell.
>>
>> Walt, we have info in our wiki which covers what you mentioned.
>>
>> Jarrod
>>
>> On Jun 17, 2:38 pm, c3walt <walt....@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> > Apart from php to parse the data, You need some knowledge of the http
>> > protocol particulary the get command I wrote about something similar
>> > and there's a link you can go to for more info:
>>
>> >http://waltyao.wordpress.com/2010/04/06/simpl-internal-sockets-part-3...
>>
>> > Nothing about php but info on http
>>
>> > Walt
>>
>> > On Jun 16, 7:54 pm, Nadim Awan <vmail...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > > That will be cool, what PHP functions are used to do that?
>>
>> > > On 16 June 2010 09:52:07 UTC+1, Jarrod Bell <jar...@guilink.com> wrote:
>>
>> > > > I know there are ways of creating screenshots of webpages using PHP,
>> > > > Perl, etc... perhaps you can do that and crop the regions you want?
>>
>> > > > Jarrod
>>
>> > > > On Jun 16, 3:38 am, Fiasco <dgvoll...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > > > > I know there are tons of html/table based channel listing guides out
>> > > > > there on the innerwebs.
>>
>> > > > > Are there any image based ones?    I suppose I could write a script in
>> > > > > perl on my apache server to parse the existing ones and use gimp to
>> > > > > generate an image but it would be so much easier if someone else was
>> > > > > doing that work for me :D
>>
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