Re: A new tv_grab_API

On 10/16/2016 7:17 AM, Hika van den Hoven wrote:
> 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.

xmltv.pm is a perl library with tools to make it easier to generate a 
valid XMLTV formatted file.  Based on your description, you have 
something different.

So, to summarize your utility, it's a Python script that generates XMLTV 
by parsing a web based JSON or XML (including HTML) source into a tree 
and running that tree against a JSON based definition language to 
mapping tree leaves to a XMLTV record.

Right?

Robert



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