UK listings from Atlas
Added by James Fry over 12 years ago
Hi All,
I know that in times past the pyepg used the UK metabroadcast atlas source to grab listings.
I just took a look at atlas and I can see that programmes can have an image and thumbnail defined in the JSON.
e.g.
{
"locations": [],
"broadcasts": [
{
"transmission_time": "2013-11-05T23:35:00Z",
"transmission_end_time": "2013-11-06T01:00:00Z",
"broadcast_duration": 5100,
"broadcast_on": "http://www.bbc.co.uk/services/bbcone/london",
"id": "bbc:p01kctbv",
"repeat": false,
"signed": false,
"audio_described": false,
"channel": {
"related_links": [],
"aliases": [],
"id": "cbbh"
},
"aliases": [],
"duration": 5100,
"published_duration": 5100,
"restriction": {
"restricted": true,
"message": "Contains very strong language."
}
}
],
"countries_of_origin": [],
"subtitles": [],
"release_dates": [],
"title": "The Men Who Stare at Goats",
"description": "Comedy. Reporter Bob Wilton (Ewan McGregor) thinks he may have a scoop when he learns about the New Earth Army, an experimental US military unit with unparalleled psychic powers.",
"publisher": {
"key": "bbc.co.uk",
"name": "BBC",
"country": "GB"
},
"image": "http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/programmeimages/p01gzhpd/b00xhf50_640_360.jpg",
"images": [],
"thumbnail": "http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/programmeimages/p01gzhpd/b00xhf50_150_84.jpg",
"genres": [],
"tags": [],
"clips": [],
"topics": [],
"key_phrases": [],
"related_links": [],
"products": [],
"content_groups": [],
"same_as": [],
"equivalents": [],
"people": [],
"media_type": "video",
"specialization": "film",
"schedule_only": false,
"languages": [],
"certificates": [],
"aliases": [
"http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00xhf50",
"http://bbc.co.uk/i/xhf50/"
],
"uri": "http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00xhf50",
"curie": "bbc:b00xhf50",
"id": "vks9q",
"type": "film"
}
I think it would be great to see programme thumbnail in the EPG in XBMC - something that seems to be getting added to the latest gen of smart TVs.
Anyone know if there is:
a) an EPG grabber for atlas? (IIRC pyepg is now defunct)
b) Any work on XBMC to show program images?
cheers,
James