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I've recently taken the time to scan the remaining channel numbers for additional channels like Premiere and Comedy Central, to write autoconf and automake files for this grabber to ease installation, and to write a standard XMLTV grabber script. All in all, this grabber can now be used like a standard XMLTV grabber.

Download current version 1.2 of the tv_grab_de_tvmovie_clickfinder grabber

There have been sev­er­al bugs in the TV Movie grab­ber script, most promi­nent­ly bro­ken day­light sav­ing time sup­port. Thanks ev­ery­one for point­ing these out. I have im­proved the script in sev­er­al re­spects and pack­aged these changes for the ver­sion 1.1. Changes are:

• Fixed day­light sav­ing time
• Fixed XML dec­la­ra­tion for ISO-8859-1
• Fixed orig­i­nal ti­tle for movies (was in­cor­rect­ly parsed as sub-ti­tle)
• Fixed star-rat­ing (in­cor­rect­ly dis­played as rat­ing)
• Added out­put of FSK rat­ing
• Added ex­tend­ed cat­e­go­ry out­put
• Added coun­try pars­ing and canon­i­fi­ca­tion
• Re­duced chan­nel list in XML file to ac­tu­al­ly present chan­nels
• Added Mono/Stereo/Dol­by cat­e­go­riza­tion
• Added black/white pars­ing
• Cleanup in code.

Down­load cur­rent ver­sion 1.1 of script

P.S.: In the code pub­lished be­fore the 21st of April a ter­ri­bly stupid bug pre­vents prop­er date/time pars­ing. Fixed it.

Recently, the TV Movie paper has changed its publication format for electronic programme data to match its new ClickFinder software. Unfortunately, a Linux version of this software is still missing; to remedy this, I have written a converter for these data to XMLTV and a script automating the EPG data acquisition.

I donate this script to the public. However, since the TV Movie paper probably finances its Click-Finder program with advertisements[1], please make sure you visit their web page regularily or find some other while to make this service worth their while.

UPDATE: Version 1.2 of this script is available.