SkyMovies should use RSS

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Why don't sky movies offer an RSS feed of their schedules? It would make life a lot easier for lazy people like me to consume the schedule over RSS instead of having to navigate through their website (which I hate) It's not like they haven't heard of the technology, as their press office is using it.
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Rob said:

Presumably their site could be parsed into an RSS feed, though they mightn't like that very much.

michele said:

Maybe, but I wouldn't be able to do it ...

michael said:

I wrote something quickly in python a while ago which scrapes the what's on now listings on http:/www.rte.ie/arts/tvradio.html

It gives plain text output like this:
http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/~michael/telly.txt
and is here:
http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/~michael/tellyscraper.tgz

I imagine it shouldn't be too hard to make it output RSS or to work for more channels, it's deliberately constrianed to bog1-4 because I don't have cable/sky.

Rob said:

In Perl, XML::RSS makes this sort of thing very easy. I'd say there's a python equiv.

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