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UK listings from Atlas

Added by James Fry about 11 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