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