browneggs

Are there any freeware programs that scrape the tv listings? I was just wondering if there are any alternatives to the handful of commercial products (Pocket TV Browser, Pocket TV Listings). I THOUGHT that avantgo would provide a good source for US listings, but the version offered from TVGuide.com is horrible. Not to mention really impractical to use as an actual guide.

uzziah0

I had looked last year, and found nothing that was any good for free, so I gave up.
Individual channels might offer what you want, but then you'd have a different page for each different channel (in AvantGo I load SciFi, and it lists today's shows).
Yahoo does good for movies, but I am having problems with my Yahoo login so it knows where I am.

browneggs

I was looking into the XMLTV (http://membled.com/work/apps/xmltv/) - I will post a review if it works well. From what I understand, Pocket PC 2002 comes with XML support (maybe I am mistaken).

auntbeckymac

I go to my tv listings on Yahoo and save the list as html only and then move the file to my axim. This way, I have the list when it's off the PC (where i have the internet connection).


:)

browneggs

After the XMLTV thing did not work out, I ended up doing exactly that. Granted, I still can't save a whole days listings at once (I can do at most 3 hours), but I am really only watching tv from 7-10 anyways. Just out of curiousity , are you doing any other formatting to it to get rid of all the junk above and below it? It would seem like it is a simple script writing thing to automate the process (in which case, it would start to look like a scraper program anyways :P).