On 4/16/05, Michael Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Blindly following various HOWTO's on myth installation lead me to > believe that the Nine MSN tv_grab_au in the forums was perhaps the only > one around that people were using... this may be quite far from the truth!
Google for "tv_grab_au" gave me the d1 grabber as the first hit, which made me think that was the only one when I started looking! > I'm not quite sure what to do about this now. Rohbag's d1.com grabber > looks quite complete and is well written, and is *perhaps* the legally > least dodgy option (?) --- is this what most people are using now? The big drawback with the d1 grabber is that there are no program descriptions. The ninemsn grabber has this, and makes it a lot nicer IMHO. The d1 grabber has been unreliable at times too, and it doesn't have data for all areas, IIRC. > If there is sufficient interest in an updated Nine MSN grabber I'll > consider finishing it off and least making it a functional replacement > for the forum version (*). That would be nice :) > I recently noticed that requests for pages to > Nine MSN in the old script go through 4 or more redirections, slowing > down things substantially --- it is easy to get around this however (of > course, whether it is *polite* to spoof MSID hashes on URLs is another > matter entirely). Does it really matter? Using their data isn't real polite in the first place. > Thoughts? I'm using a ninemsn grabber with a modification date of 21 Dec 2004 which has a few updates and works a lot better than the old one posted on the list in November. Let me know off the list if you'd like a copy. I suspect that there are even more recent versions floating around out there somewhere. Thanks for the work so far, Ross _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users