Alternative UK based grabbers.
Added by Mark Hamblin over 9 years ago
Forgive me if treading on someone's toes,...
but since the demise of the Radio Times xmltv feeds earlier this year,... has anyone looked at alternatives such as Atlas ( http://atlas.metabroadcast.com/ ) which has 2 weeks of listings and an extensive channel list including the plus-1hr and plus-24hr content.
regards....
Replies (6)
RE: Alternative UK based grabbers. - Added by Mark Clarkstone over 9 years ago
Mark Hamblin wrote:
Forgive me if treading on someone's toes,...
but since the demise of the Radio Times xmltv feeds earlier this year,... has anyone looked at alternatives such as Atlas ( http://atlas.metabroadcast.com/ ) which has 2 weeks of listings and an extensive channel list including the plus-1hr and plus-24hr content.
regards....
I believe there is an xmltv grabber for the atlas listings but it requires a developer key to access it.
RE: Alternative UK based grabbers. - Added by Mark Hamblin over 9 years ago
Ah Tx for the response,.
...that's great,.. if that's the case then ( I think ) I already have a key,.. anyone can obtain one, or at least they could.
But how do I set the Atlas grabber from the pull down menu, from within THD menus.
Rgds
RE: Alternative UK based grabbers. - Added by Prof Yaffle over 9 years ago
The was a python-based Atlas grabber, but I don't know that Adam has done much with it for ages.
However, as Mark C suggested, someone on IRC mentioned that later versions of XMLTV support Atlas (I keep meaning to look at it, I even have a key somewhere...) so I think it's a case of installing, registering and configuring tv_grab_uk_atlas and it would then appear on the drop-down list as part of the 'internal grabber' selection.
I think.
RE: Alternative UK based grabbers. - Added by Prof Yaffle over 9 years ago
From your other posts, you said you were running 'buntu, so...
apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys DB87EE44DD382349
&& echo deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/alex-tomlins/xmltv/ubuntu trusty main > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/xmltv.list
&& apt-get update -qq && apt-get install xmltv
... apparently.
The PPA is here:
https://launchpad.net/~alex-tomlins/+archive/ubuntu/xmltv
And there are daily builds here:
https://launchpad.net/~mythbuntu/+archive/ubuntu/xmltv
... so there are options to have a play if you're feeling brave and want to report back later how marvellous/disastrous it was :-)
RE: Alternative UK based grabbers. - Added by Mark Hamblin over 9 years ago
Well bit the bullet and went for it,...
Thanks to the "Prof" for his suggestions on installing xmltv,.. ( you do need 0.5.60 or greater, and this is not currently available from the ubuntu tree I believe ) last time I did this I had to do all the install and compiling myself,.. so tx for that.
Got Atlas from here:- https://github.com/honir/tv_grab_uk_atlas/blob/master/INSTALL
note the 4 .conf files are actually in a hidden folder/directory ( so 'ls -la' ).
Copy these file to the /home/hts/.xmltv users structure,.. make sure owned/group by 'hts'
and run tv_grab_uk_atlas --configure
You will need a key for Atlas from the Press Association BEFORE you run configure,.. enable a couple of option with the key settings,.. and it should go...
( the grabber script was already in the /usr/bin so no need for that step. )
I had to run configure twice,.. once for freeSAT and once for FreeView,.. then merge the files,.. remove the unwanted headers,.... ( you have to rename the first file created )
and then
run tv_grab_uk_atlas ( this produces a progress bar ( in text ) and when complete a ton of text/xml that scrolls off the screen. )
.... Note run as the hts users,.. ( sudo su - hts ).... running as your default user is NOT the same thing...
Just leaving it to run for the moment,.. I think it worked,.. but we shall see in time...
that's all I have for now,.. will update if different.
Rgrds
RE: Alternative UK based grabbers. - Added by Mark Hamblin over 9 years ago
If you need a key,..
go here => http://atlas.metabroadcast.com/#reference
and click on "api explorer and free key"
login is via a twitter or facebook account credentials
Then Create an application,.. and enable PA, BBC, UK channel Lineups
Make a note of the key eg a25e54cf67c04a40aaa556efa1ee5e1f
and enter when requested when doing a --configure with the atlas grabber