Thursday September 06, 2007 Zap2It Labs Gone?
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This is annoying. It looks like Zap2It Labs is no more, and my hack to automatically get an email each day listing my new TV shows, will no longer work. |
Ironically I got an email on September 2nd saying my three month subscription for their service was expiring on the 9th September, and I'd need to renew. I tried to go to the link they provided me, and got a web page server error.
By googling around, I discovered an old posting where it looks like the service stopped working on September 1st. My automatic emails have been coming in, but they've shown no new listings. I just assummed that this was the natural state of affairs in the U.S. where there are virtually no new TV shows during the summer months. I guess I should have added some better smarts to the Python script to detect server errors.
One of the replies in the forum suggests:
http://www.tv-now.com/thegrids.htm?Zip=<your zip code here>
as an alternate service for looking up TV programs, but that just seems to be a pretty web page that's you'd have to view "manually". I don't see a way to just connect to the data.
If anybody knows of an alternate service that provides this information, I'd be very interested.
( Sep 06 2007, 12:35:25 PM PDT ) [Listen] Permalink Comments [7]
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