TV Listings (somewhat off topic)
Posted: 14 Jun 2004 22:50
Anyone here have any opinions on the retrieval of TV listings.
I am currenly getting my TV Listings, locally and reformated, by scraping data from Zap2It (formerly ClickTV). Using an HTTP robot and XML parser to store the data in HSQLDB. This works fine for now, but I don't think this is a long term solution.
I looked into xmlTV but didn't like the technology (perl, mysql, other things I can't remember right now). I did however like that is seemed to have a fair amount of international support.
I've also noticed that a lot of apps use TitanTV for listings. Any opinions on this? Does it have a monthly fee? I would like to get the data to store locally for integration reasons.
A Java, C or C++ solutions would be best for me since I would like to limit the quantities of technology that the app uses (also cross platform).
I am currenly getting my TV Listings, locally and reformated, by scraping data from Zap2It (formerly ClickTV). Using an HTTP robot and XML parser to store the data in HSQLDB. This works fine for now, but I don't think this is a long term solution.
I looked into xmlTV but didn't like the technology (perl, mysql, other things I can't remember right now). I did however like that is seemed to have a fair amount of international support.
I've also noticed that a lot of apps use TitanTV for listings. Any opinions on this? Does it have a monthly fee? I would like to get the data to store locally for integration reasons.
A Java, C or C++ solutions would be best for me since I would like to limit the quantities of technology that the app uses (also cross platform).