The future of the UK Radio Times data service (tv_grab_uk_rt)

A heads up for all current UK/Eire XMLTV users (note that no action is
necessary now):

The Radio Times data service (as used by the tv_grab_uk_rt grabber for
several years) is considered deprecated by the new team maintaining it
at metabroadcast [1]. It is quite likely that this service will be
taken down before the BST->GMT transition takes place at the end of
October 2012.

    [1] http://metabroadcast.com/


When the Radio Times service is finally turned off, listings for the
UK and Ireland will be available going forwards through the new Atlas
[2] service (developed at metabroadcast). I will soon upload a new
grabber - well before anything happens to the current service - to
allow a gradual transition to this service for current tv_grab_uk_rt
users. I will work to make the transition as smooth as possible for
everyone, maintaining compatibility with current config files and
XMLTV IDs where possible.

    [2] http://atlas.metabroadcast.com


The new Atlas service and API [3] is substantially richer than the
current service. It does not suffer from the bi-annual BST changeover
gremlins that have plagued the upstream data (it uses ISO 8601 dates).
It can provide richer listings data and programme metadata, more
channels, and - more importantly - is actively developed and open
source.

    [3] http://github.com/atlasapi/atlas/


More details will be posted in due course - in the meantime the
tv_grab_uk_rt grabber will continue to work as normal.


Cheers,
Nick

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