Scrape Website for TV listings

drspangle · 07-12-2004, 01:00 AM

Hi there

Currently, there is no working xml tv grabbing script that works in New Zealand, so I was hoping to learn to do it myself.

I have a good source and would be much appreciative if someone who knew what they were doing in this regard could point me in the right direction. Cheers

idaho · 07-13-2004, 12:52 AM

Here is a link about doing this with perl:
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2003/01/22/mechanize.html

drspangle · 07-13-2004, 03:58 AM

Hey thanks.

I can`t read through it right now but I`ll have a good read when I get the chance

Would I require any knowledge of perl above what is used in that guide?

BluePyre · 07-13-2004, 04:14 AM

It always helps, and any C-style programming background would be useful too, but the tutorial looks very well explained so there shouldn't be much need for it.

drspangle · 07-13-2004, 04:20 AM

I know spits and spots of c/c++ but I`m doing a proper Java paper next semester. Oh and i know MATlab, but I don`t think it`ll be too useful ehre heh.