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Non XMLTV Grabber


How do I use a listings grabber that is not part of the XMLTV project? (E.g. for using FreeGuide in Australia.)

Here is some advice from one of our users on how he got Australian listings working:

I went to http://minnie.tuhs.org/twiki/bin/view/TV Guide/ and signed up for an account, then I downloaded http://www.wireplay.org/xmltv_au/tv_grab_au.exe then I just went into Tools, Options, Advanced, Grabbers, XMLTV, picked any one and changed the command path to:

C:\Program Files\video\FreeGuide\TVGuideGrabber\tv_grab_au_tuhs.exe --config-file "C:\Program Files\video\FreeGuide\TVGuideGrabber\tv_grab_au_tuhs.xml"

If you manage to get any non-official grabbers working, Contact Us and let us know so we can help others do the same.

If any third-party grabber works well, and is not going to go into XMLTV for some reason (e.g. it's not written in Perl), and it's GPL licenced, we will consider distributing it as a part of FreeGuide to make it easier for others to use.

Page last modified on June 04, 2008    PmWiki Info

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