[REQ] Working TV.COM script

[LaZrus]

Hi all

Primary scripts I have tried:

TV.COM and TVTOME SG (edited for Comedy Central Presents)

I hope ths is the correct area in which to post this request. I do a lot of collecting of TV Shows. Right now the one I am trying to input is Comedy Central Presents. I have downloaded the new scripts as well as copied the contents of the script posted by, ummm, I believe Alligator, and created a new script with that. No matter what I enter as the info I get 0 results. I have tried editing the scripts, (yeah right, me, mr. zero knowledge ) and no luck. I also took the SG TVTOME script and edited it to look for the eipsodes specifically related to Comedy Central Presents. I have tried various forms of this link:

http://www.tv.com/comedy-central-presen ... av_bar;all

which is the one that shows ALL episodes on one page and also ending at the "episode_listings.html" instead of going on to show all episodes. I can truly say I am lost. I have tried searchng for other shows as well (ie Cold Case) and the same two episodes always show up.

OK, all of the above was to show that I invested about 3 hours of time in the code before I came here begging, yes begging , for help... I'm not a scripter/coder but I did give it a try. How's about someone who has a clue fix it for me/us?

Thank in advance
Russ

[LaZrus]

I called you an Alligator - How rude of me

[crocodilu_q]

no harm done, it was actually kind of funny.

Regarding the script, it is very difficult to maintain, because tv.com does not have a ...let's say standard structure for each series. So for some of them it works and for some of them it's not working...
And above that, they change it pretty often... for example, I could import info for Battlestar Galactica last month, but now I get a HTTP page error. Surely they changed something and the key words from the script do not match anymore.



If you want to fix it, it is not very hard, depends of your programming skills. Use a web browser to see the source page of what you want, and then modify the script to search for some keywords...
And then, of course, there is tv.com's ads page, when you have to click a link to continue...this is a bitch for the script

[quake74]

For a more "stable" site, maybe one could use http://tvdb.zsori.com/ which imports data from tv.com but also exposes it in a more machine friendly coherent version.

[HappyTalk]

I pretty much rewrote the tv.com script a few months back and fully automated it. Roadtested it to death. You should be able to grab info for 1,000's of records with a single click while you sleep. I'm about to post it on here. We'll see how it performs when released into the wild.