Fot those that watch the india channels i found a website that had real good show details for india channels but there was no existing ini file for webgrab to use to get the data so i figured out how to create one with help from a documentation manual webgrab provides and asking on their site when i got stuck.So when the grabber runs tonight i added a few webgrabs to replace a few existing shows in the epg.
WB India and HBO India will update tonight to replace the crappy old "Movie" data they currently show most of the time.
Example new WB India data
Code:
<programme start="20160129010100 +0530" stop="20160129033400 +0530" channel="WB">
<title lang="en">Django Unchained</title>
<desc lang="en">Winner of 2 Oscar awards, this western adventure film is about a freed slave who treks across the State with a bounty hunter on a mission to rescue his wife from a cruel plantation owner</desc>
<credits>
<director>Quentin Tarantino</director>
<actor>Jamie Foxx</actor>
<actor>Christoph Waltz</actor>
<actor>Leonardo DiCaprio</actor>
<actor>Kerry Washington</actor>
<actor>Samuel L. Jackson</actor>
<actor>Walton Goggins</actor>
<writer>Quentin Tarantino</writer>
<producer>Stacey Sher</producer>
<producer>Reginald Hudlin</producer>
<producer>Pilar Savone</producer>
</credits>
<date>2012</date>
<category lang="en">Movie</category>
<icon src="http://tvscheduleindia.com/images/tv/s/20150507/Django_Unchaine_1430990916_140.jpg" />
<rating system="US">
<value>8.5/10</value>
</rating>
</programme>
new HBO India data
Code:
<programme start="20160129045600 +0530" stop="20160129062600 +0530" channel="HBO">
<title lang="en">Analyze This</title>
<desc lang="en">Ben (Billy Crystal) is a psychiatrist with problems of his own. His parents don’t want to attend his upcoming wedding and his patients’ problems hold no challenge. Mafia don Paul Vitti (Robert De Niro) has a different set of troubles. He gets sudden anxiety attacks in public and is not able to kill as easily as he used to do before. When Ben’s car crashes into Paul’s, the latter decides to become his patient. But what will the don expecting him to be on 24-hour duty; his looming wedding and the FBI insisting that he spy on Paul - Ben has the toughest deal. And how do you treat a guy who solves all his problems with a gun?</desc>
<credits>
<director>Harold Ramis</director>
<actor>Robert De Niro</actor>
<actor>Billy Crystal</actor>
<actor>Lisa Kudrow</actor>
<actor>Chazz Palminteri</actor>
<actor>Joe Viterelli</actor>
<writer>Kenneth Lonergan</writer>
<writer>Peter Tolan</writer>
<producer>Jane Rosenthal</producer>
<producer>Paula Weinstein</producer>
<composer>Howard Shore</composer>
</credits>
<date>1999</date>
<category lang="en">Movie</category>
<icon src="http://tvscheduleindia.com/images/tv/s/20151013/Analyze_This_1444720975_140.jpg" />
<rating system="US">
<value>6.5/10</value>
</rating>
</programme>
alot of the data that kodi doesnt use get removed to keep the file size smaller like the credits section,rating,date but description,icon,category(for epg color) is kept.
i had a scan through the other channels and didnt notice any that had crappy data.if you notice any let me know and i can check the data on the new source.any channel thats dummied i cant add.i already checked for them against the list.
btw most of the dummied channels are pakistan,if you know a website that has epg for them let me know and maybe i can pull the data.I have looked before but didnt find much.