Re: A new tv_grab_API

Hoi Robert,

Sunday, October 16, 2016, 9:27:40 AM, you wrote:

> On 10/15/2016 6:24 PM, Hika van den Hoven wrote:
>> I have mentioned before that since the start of this year I have been
>> working on turning the dutch grabber tv_grab_nl.py into a generic API
>> for creating a grabber. I have fully separated all grabber specific
>> data from the code, making it for a maintainer not necessary to touch
>> the code.

> I'm a little confused on what you've created.   Is this a python 
> equivalent to xmltv.pm?
I do not know xmltv.pm, so I can not compare.
It's a data driven API. You create the JSON data files telling it
where and what to grab and it returns a nice xmltv file. DataTreeGrab
imports any html or json page into a node tree and you tell the
program how to crawl through that tree and at which points to extract
data returning it in a uniform format to the main API. The main API
merges the data from all the sources (11 at present for the Dutch
grabber) and returns the xmltv file. This whole proces is
manipulatable in a lot of ways by the maintainer and by the user.
By the first through the JSON data files and by the user through many
settable options.

> I looked at some of your documentation and you talk about creating a 
> grabber without knowing
>   any python.   I'm not sure how that works...  are you talking about 
> grabbing data from any
> source already providing XMLTV formatted data or is there some other 
> file format you're
> grabbing and converting.

> Be sure and add your project to the Wiki at XMLTV.ORG

I'm planning to

> Robert


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