Namran Hussin Linux Malaysia TV Program Guide grabber for Mythtv

Malaysia TV Program Guide grabber for Mythtv

First of all have to determine the sourceid from.. the MySQL.. and make it look like this one..

# mysql -u root -p
Enter password: 
Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 3905
Server version: 5.0.45 Source distribution

Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer.

mysql> use mythconverg;
Reading table information for completion of table and column names
You can turn off this feature to get a quicker startup with -A

Database changed
mysql> select sourceid,name,xmltvid from channel;
+----------+------+-----------------------+
| sourceid | name | xmltvid               |
+----------+------+-----------------------+
|        2 | TV1  | M038-101.astro.com.my | 
|        2 | TV3  | M046-103.astro.com.my | 
|        2 | NTV7 | M036-107.astro.com.my | 
|        2 | 8TV  | M057-708.astro.com.my | 
|        2 |      |                       | 
|        2 | TV9  |                       | 
+----------+------+-----------------------+
6 rows in set (0.00 sec)

and this the bash file that i use to run it daily..

#!/bin/sh
#DATE=`date '+%d/%B/%y'
DATE=`date '+%Y%m%d'`
TOMORROW=`date -d1day '+%Y%m%d'`
cd /home/mythtv/mythguide/update
# TV1
wget http://mythastro.hostrator.com/M038-101.astro.com.my_$DATE.xml --output-document M038-101.astro.com.my_$DATE.xml
sed s/-0800/+0800/g M038-101.astro.com.my_$DATE.xml > M038-101.astro.com.my1_$DATE.xml
mythfilldatabase --update --refresh-all --file 2 M038-101.astro.com.my1_$DATE.xml


wget http://mythastro.hostrator.com/M038-101.astro.com.my_$TOMORROW.xml --output-document M038-101.astro.com.my_$TOMORROW.xml 
sed s/-0800/+0800/g M038-101.astro.com.my_$TOMORROW.xml >  M038-101.astro.com.my1_$TOMORROW.xml
mythfilldatabase --update --refresh-all --file 2 M038-101.astro.com.my1_$TOMORROW.xml

# TV3
wget http://mythastro.hostrator.com/M046-103.astro.com.my_$DATE.xml --output-document M046-103.astro.com.my_$DATE.xml
sed s/-0800/+0800/g M046-103.astro.com.my_$DATE.xml > M046-103.astro.com.my1_$DATE.xml 
mythfilldatabase --update --refresh-all --file 2 M046-103.astro.com.my1_$DATE.xml

wget http://mythastro.hostrator.com/M046-103.astro.com.my_$TOMORROW.xml --output-document M046-103.astro.com.my_$TOMORROW.xml
sed s/-0800/+0800/g M046-103.astro.com.my_$TOMORROW.xml > M046-103.astro.com.my1_$TOMORROW.xml
mythfilldatabase --update --refresh-all --file 2 M046-103.astro.com.my1_$TOMORROW.xml
# NTV7
wget http://mythastro.hostrator.com/M036-107.astro.com.my_$DATE.xml --output-document M036-107.astro.com.my_$DATE.xml
sed s/-0800/+0800/g M036-107.astro.com.my_$DATE.xml > M036-107.astro.com.my1_$DATE.xml

mythfilldatabase --update --refresh-all --file 2 M036-107.astro.com.my1_$DATE.xml 

wget http://mythastro.hostrator.com/M036-107.astro.com.my_$TOMORROW.xml --output-document M036-107.astro.com.my_$TOMORROW.xml 
sed s/-0800/+0800/g M036-107.astro.com.my_$TOMORROW.xml >  M036-107.astro.com.my1_$TOMORROW.xml
mythfilldatabase --update --refresh-all --file 2 M036-107.astro.com.my1_$TOMORROW.xml

# 8TV
wget http://mythastro.hostrator.com/M057-708.astro.com.my_$DATE.xml --output-document M057-708.astro.com.my_$DATE.xml
sed s/-0800/+0800/g M057-708.astro.com.my_$DATE.xml >  M036-107.astro.com.my1_$TOMORROW.xml

mythfilldatabase --update --refresh-all --file 2 M057-708.astro.com.my1_$DATE.xml


wget http://mythastro.hostrator.com/M057-708.astro.com.my_$TOMORROW.xml --output-document M057-708.astro.com.my_$TOMORROW.xml 
sed s/-0800/+0800/g M057-708.astro.com.my_$TOMORROW.xml > M057-708.astro.com.my1_$TOMORROW.xml
mythfilldatabase --update --refresh-all --file 2 M057-708.astro.com.my1_$TOMORROW.xml

-bash-3.2$ crontab -l
* 5 * * * /home/mythtv/bin/mythguide-update2.sh > /dev/null

it might be buggy at the moment..
but at least..I got something like this..

program-listing
heheh..mouse over the program will tell the program description..

program-listing-mouse-over

click on it to record..
mythtv-record-lah

nice..

thanks to the XML uploader..

p/s: all this stuff only viable after a great journey earlier… 8-)

10 thoughts on “Malaysia TV Program Guide grabber for Mythtv”

  1. Let’s see how long that WEBSITE WITH XMLTV FILES for MALAYSIA’s ASTRO THAT CAN BE USED ON MYTHTV lasts … 8-)

  2. you can also use tv_cat to concatenate multiple xmltv files into one, and pass it to mythfilldatabase in one go.

    Got a few other useful tv_* utilities, e.g. tv_to_text.

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