Alternative UK based grabbers.

Mark Hamblin

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....

mpmc

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.

Mark Hamblin

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

ProfYaffle

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.

ProfYaffle

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 :-)

Mark Hamblin

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

Mark Hamblin

If you need a key,..

go here => http://atlas.metabroadcast.com/#reference

and click on "api explorer and free key"

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