Adam Lewandowski
2011-01-09 02:39:49 UTC
The old grabber broke back in December when DirecTV updated their
website. Attached is a first pass at an updated grabber. Of note is the
additional JSON module dependency, since DirecTV is now returning
channel and basic schedule data from a JSON service.
It's not the fastest thing in the world, and it's not yet passing
tv_validate_grabber. But it is functional so I'm posting it now because
I don't have a lot of time to work on it and thought others might find
it useful. I'll work on it as time permits and resubmit once it's
cleaned up. If anyone does want to do additional work on it, let me know
so we don't duplicate any effort.
Note: I'm using Schedules Direct as a primary data source, but they
don't do the sports packages very well (NBA League Pass, NHL Center Ice,
etc.) so I use this grabber to get that data. That's where my focus is
so I'm not making any promises on the quality of the rest of the data
(but I did try :) ).
website. Attached is a first pass at an updated grabber. Of note is the
additional JSON module dependency, since DirecTV is now returning
channel and basic schedule data from a JSON service.
It's not the fastest thing in the world, and it's not yet passing
tv_validate_grabber. But it is functional so I'm posting it now because
I don't have a lot of time to work on it and thought others might find
it useful. I'll work on it as time permits and resubmit once it's
cleaned up. If anyone does want to do additional work on it, let me know
so we don't duplicate any effort.
Note: I'm using Schedules Direct as a primary data source, but they
don't do the sports packages very well (NBA League Pass, NHL Center Ice,
etc.) so I use this grabber to get that data. That's where my focus is
so I'm not making any promises on the quality of the rest of the data
(but I did try :) ).