I was wondering if it was possible to get the Schedules Direct EPG data supported. It has most sat/cable/atsc providers EPG information for us people in North America.
http://www.schedulesdirect.org/
Here is a script that could be used to get the support going.
# This module retrieves SchedulesDirect XML data using a hand-coded SOAP request.
#
# The code is released into the Public Domain. If you break it, you own both halves.
#
# Original Code by Keith Medcalf, kmedcalf@dessus.com
# posted on 2008-09-13 http://forums.schedulesdirect.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=595
#
import codecs
import encodings
import gzip
import string
import sys
import time
import urllib2
import urlparse
def FetchXML(userName,
passWord,
URL='http://webservices.schedulesdirect.tmsdatadirect.com/schedulesdirect/tvlistings/xtvdService'
Realm='TMSWebServiceRealm',
predays=0,
postdays=14,
fileName='ddata.xml',
fileCoding='latin-1',
gzipped = False):
cur = time.time()
startTime = time.strftime( '%Y-%m-%dT00:00:00Z', time.gmtime( cur + ( predays * 86400.0 ) ) )
endTime = time.strftime( '%Y-%m-%dT00:00:00Z', time.gmtime( cur + ( postdays * 86400.0 ) ) )
strSoap = '<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:SOAP-ENC="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">\n' \
' <SOAP-ENV:Body>\n' \
' <m:download xmlns:m="urn:TMSWebServices" SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">\n' \
' <startTime xsi:type="xsd:dateTime">' + startTime + '</startTime>\n' \
' <endTime xsi:type="xsd:dateTime">' + endTime + '</endTime>\n' \
' </m:download>\n' \
' </SOAP-ENV:Body>\n' \
'</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>'
print '#', time.strftime('%Y/%m/%d %H:%M:%S'), "Retrieving DataDirect TV Schedules"
print '#', time.strftime('%Y/%m/%d %H:%M:%S'), "Requesting", startTime, "to", endTime
authinfo = urllib2.HTTPDigestAuthHandler()
authinfo.add_password(Realm, urlparse.urlparse(URL)[1], userName, passWord)
request = urllib2.Request(URL, strSoap)
if gzipped:
request.add_header('Accept-encoding', 'gzip')
if fileName[-3:].lower() == '.gz':
fileName = fileName[:-3]
fileName += '.gz'
opener = urllib2.build_opener(authinfo)
urllib2.install_opener(opener)
print '#', time.strftime('%Y/%m/%d %H:%M:%S'), 'Saving XML to File: ' + fileName + ', Encoding: ' + fileCoding
fileObj = None
if fileCoding == 'native':
urldata = opener.open(request)
outfile = open(fileName,'wb',262144)
repenc = False
elif not gzipped:
urldata = codecs.getreader('utf-8')(opener.open(request), errors='replace')
outfile = codecs.open(fileName,'wb', fileCoding, 'replace', 262144)
repenc = True
else:
raise ValueError('Codepage Translation of GZIP data not supported')
print '#', time.strftime('%Y/%m/%d %H:%M:%S'), 'Receiving XML Data', ' '*30,
fmt = ('\b'*30) + '%6d KB, %3d KB/s, %3d KB/s'
data = 'X'
bytes = 0
currb = 0
first = time.time()
last = time.time() - 1
while data:
data = urldata.read(8192)
b = len(data)
bytes += b
currb += b
if repenc:
data = string.replace(data, "encoding='utf-8'", "encoding='"+fileCoding+"'")
repenc = False
if data:
outfile.write(data)
curr = time.time()
diff = curr - last
if diff >= 0.999:
print fmt % ((bytes//1024), currb//1024//(curr-last), bytes//1024//(curr-first)),
last = curr
currb = 0
urldata.close()
outfile.close()
if fileObj:
fileObj.close()
print fmt % ((bytes//1024), 0, bytes//1024//(curr-first))
print '#', time.strftime('%Y/%m/%d %H:%M:%S'), "Data Retrieval Complete"
if __name__ == '__main__':
userName = "<username>"
password = "<password>"
FetchXML(userName, password)
