Getting TV listings data? rss?

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Is there any kind of rss feed or website where you can obtain tv listings data? i.e. for making your own programs or perhaps some sort of webapp?

I mean you could use the direct source output from somewhere like radiotimes but it would be a bit of a mission, especially when they change the site in anyway (even though it's currently quite nice with <li> elements).

I found this site, but it's not great
http://www.mightyv.com/search?service_type=tv&pre=whats_on_now&format=rss

 

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I don't know if the the samurize scripts are better these days, but in the past they were forever not working right, or not working at all.

I found this quite good site:

http://www.bleb.org/tv/data/listings/0/bbc1.xml

I reckon it'd be a piece of cake to do something with those files and php5. Although it'd be probably be 'nice' to cache the information somewhere first.

 

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Haha, yeah you gotta love that simplexml!

Do you reckon the best way of caching would be to automagically create a copy of the xml files every day (or week), and then access those ones?

 

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lol it's no wonder samurize had so many problems.. That link just brings up a load of garbage for me?

It's surprising there's not a good one for the vista sidebar yet, hopefully it'll be just a matter of time.