Andrew, If you have data going back prior to June 22 2005, how could one obtain a copy?
One of my uses of the TVAnyTime data is to start building an historical database that can be searched. I know there are various sites that offer this data, but there search capabilities are limited and I'm not sure of the quality/completeness of the data itself - it varies from site to site. Terry -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew McParland Sent: Wednesday, 18 July, 2007 19:38 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] BBC TV and Radio 7-day listing The TV-Anytime files on backstage are working again: http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/feeds/tvradio/ As some changes are still planned for backstage we'll keep the address below working in parallel as well As for a longer term archive of listings info, in my area we probably have a few years extra data whilst we were working on the TV-Anytime standard but I'm not sure there's another archive inside the BBC that can be made available... If anyone has one please pipe up :-) Andrew BBC Research ad Innovation On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 02:57:31PM +0100, Andrew McParland wrote: > > Sorry, we've been having a few problems. For the moment you can find > a more up to date set of TV-Anytime schedule data files at: > > http://72.249.74.119/tv-anytime/ > > Due to this being a temporary measure the address may change, and the > files may not be updated as regularly as we would like, but this should keep you > going for a bit. We are working towards a better solution and, for the > moment at least, we do intend to keep the files of data coming. We'll keep > you informed as any changes happen. > > Andrew > BBC Research and Innovation > > On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 06:03:37PM +0800, Flynn, Terry wrote: > > > > Mario, Thanks, I know about the API but prefer the files if their > > going to be maintained... its been a couple of weeks now, so suppose I better > > accept the change :( I'm an old, old UNIX programmer and my tools of > > choice are C and shell script - have a high level of inertia with > > these new java and perl thingies... Worked out how to make the API > > calls with wget, so just a matter of loading my little database - > > simple update...Thanks again for the suggestion... > > > > Terry > > > > > > > > ________________________________ > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mario Menti > > Sent: Thursday, 5 July, 2007 14:19 > > To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk > > Subject: Re: [backstage] BBC TV and Radio 7-day listing > > > > > > On 7/5/07, Flynn, Terry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Sorry if I missed any announcement - will Backstage be continuing > > the TV and Radio schedules in TVAnyTime XML format? Last update was > > June 21... As screen scraping the web site is illegal, this is the > > only option available to many of us to get BBC schedules for > > whatever purpose... > > > > Terry > > > > I don't know about the plans for the TV-Anytime files, but the best > > way to get BBC schedule information is probably through the BBC Web > > API: http://www0.rdthdo.bbc.co.uk/services/api/index.html > > > > The API can give you query results in both TV-Anytime or a slightly > > simpler XML format. > > > > HTH, > > Mario. > > > > > > > > > > > > - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
