Easy TV Data promises TV listings for Myth TV users
A group of developers from free software digital video recorder (DVR) related projects announced the first step towards a solution for obtaining free television listing information this week. The search for such a free guide data source has been on since June, when Zap2it Labs announced it would shut down its free, XML-based service as of September 1.
Zap2it's announcement cited "continued misuse" of the service -- which it had offered "to hobbyists for their own personal, noncommercial" use -- and "other business factors" as reasons for discontinuing the service. Zap2it is a product of Tribune Media Services, a commercial TV listings provider supplying information to newspapers and proprietary DVRs.
Zap2it's primary product is a TV listings Web site, but its Zap2it Labs XML service proved more useful for free software projects because it provided a structured data source easily parsed for usage in a scheduling database. For free DVR projects like MythTV, such a commercial service is not available. The alternative method for acquiring guide data is "screen scraping" -- parsing the rendered HTML from TV listings Web sites, including Zap2it's.
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