Re: [backstage] Programatic searching of /programmes
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 9:27 PM, Andy stude.l...@googlemail.com wrote: What I'm looking for is a way of sending a query such as Top Gear and getting back b006mj59 and preferably the name of the programme incase of partial matches. I did something like this a while ago with yahoo pipes - http://pipes.yahoo.com/mart/programmecode Dunno if it's any help to you. MCH - 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/
Re: [backstage] Programatic searching of /programmes
I know we have a chatbot that tells you what's on the telly built for Backstage eons ago. Don't think its what you're looking for but its fun to ask the chatbot whats on tonight etc :) http://www.daden2.co.uk/chatbots/livebots/charlotte.html Personally I prefer speaking to Halo http://www.daden2.co.uk/chatbots/livebots/halo_ajax_sitepal.html have fun Soulla 2009/2/18 Martin Poppy Hatfield mar...@moppy.co.uk On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 9:27 PM, Andy stude.l...@googlemail.com wrote: What I'm looking for is a way of sending a query such as Top Gear and getting back b006mj59 and preferably the name of the programme incase of partial matches. I did something like this a while ago with yahoo pipes - http://pipes.yahoo.com/mart/programmecode Dunno if it's any help to you. MCH - 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/ -- Soulla Stylianou RL Client Director DADEN LIMITED e: soulla.stylia...@daden.co.uk t: 0121 698 8520 m: 07814145167 w: www.daden.co.uk http://twitter.com/SoullaStylianou sl: http://www.slurl.com/secondlife/daden%20prime/160/184/26 sl IM: ImmortalitySou Ballinger Daden Limited is an Information 2.0 Consultancy and full service Virtual Worlds/Second Life development agency. Creators of Daden Navigator - the first Web Browser for Second Life ( http://www.daden.co.uk/navigator)
Re: [backstage] Programatic searching of /programmes
The last time I needed to do something like this I tried Search first, but ended up using the A-Z on /programmes as the results were much more what I was after. The HTML on /programmes is also easy to parse. I don't call using an XML parser and XPath screen scraping :) It's screen scraping if the output wasn't designed to be read by a machine. Change the format and you've got a broken screen scraper. If the output was XML any changes to the output would either be non-destructive to the existing format or would explicitly use a different version of the API on a different URL or with different arguments (like the difference between RSS and Atom). You could use a parser like Beautiful Soup to turn whatever rubbish you're looking at into perfectly traversable XML but it doesn't change the fact that the entire thing would break if the page author decided to juggle the layout around a bit. That's my rule of thumb about what constitutes screen scraping anyway. Iain - 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/
[backstage] ApacheCon Europe 2009 - 10% discount for BBC Backstage Developers
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