Is there any way I can get Program Schedules prior to June 2005 - which
is the start if the TVAnyTime listings? Does not have to be TVAnyTime
format...
I'm trying to build up a historical database to answer researchers
questions. I know the BBC Programme Catalogue is there for that purpose,
but it's only Beta and not accurate enough yet. Example, a search of
Afternoon Play and The Afternoon Play totals 14 shows for 2006 for
Radio 4, which I know is not correct.
Terry
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Adam Leach
Sent: Saturday, 7 July, 2007 23:13
To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
Subject: Re: [backstage] BBC TV and Radio 7-day listing
Thanks Andrew,
I've been meaning to change my web site to use the api, but that
gives me a chance to enjoy the weekend of sport.
Adam
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
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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] mailto:[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.
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