Re: Internet based image channel guides?

$20 a year isn't to bad for a reliable format

On Jun 17, 12:52 pm, Jeremy Weatherford <jweat...@xidus.net> wrote:
> 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.
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> On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Fiasco <dgvoll...@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
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> >> On Jun 17, 2:38 pm, c3walt <walt....@gmail.com> wrote:
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> >> > 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:
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> >> >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:
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> >> > > 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:
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> >> > > > 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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