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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..


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

click on it to record..

nice..

thanks to the XML uploader..

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

Namran Hussin: a soft spoken guy... with exceptional interest in computers and technology. I love to learn new thing and also love to break thing for the sake of learning.. but I do abide to the self-imposed limitation or certain thing such as social thing in life, thing can be done and thing that must be avoided at whatever cost such as drug,illegal tracking, smoke,illicit activity..etc.muahahaha let's share what we had in this short term of the life.! make it worth of the living.~

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