Does anyone know of an ETV Guide program that exports the TV schedule as a tab deliminated text file? I'm using GemStar's Guide Plus+ but it doesn't export deliminated text files. Any ideas?

I think they block that sort of thing exactly for the reason you're trying to get it. :-)

I've got Paradox here and it can attempt to open Guide+'s database file (which could then be exported to text), but it's password protected.

Zap2it can display the guide in two ways (as a grid or as a three column table [name, number, show]) it is a simple copy paste into excel to put it in a table

Anthony,

I checked out Zap2it. Thanks. I don't see an easy way to export and import the info due to the format it's in. Plus, you can only export 6hrs of info at a time. I was hoping for something easier to manipulate.

I can get a pretty good export from Gemstar but you have to set every program to "watch" manually since it doesn't have a select all function. Plus, then you have to print it as a PDF, copy and paste using the Table select function in Acrobat, paste it in a spreadsheet and then import it into Access to manipulate. It's a little more work than I like considering it would have to be done each week.

Anyone have an idea how to do any of this easier?

don't know gemstar, so did not know how you wanted it formatted. Never used zap2it, but the info was easily accessible, and easy to copy/paste into excel from the web site.

what are you looking for (info format)?

This is the info I can get from Gemstar through the round about way I mentioned.

Date        Time         Station            Title                  Category        Duration
10/14/02  5:30 PM   [31] TOONP     Zoids                 Children         30m
10/14/02  7:30 PM   [31] TOONP     Dragon Ball Z      Children          30m
10/14/02  9:00 PM   [11] DSC          Monster Garage   Educational    1hr
10/15/02  5:30 PM   [31] TOONP     Zoids                  Children         30m

Something that gives similar info would be great.
In order to output 18 channels from 9:00am to 12:00am, I would need to manually select about 2300 programs. That's a bit more work than I would like. The idea was to automatically create a new TV Guide macro each week. If I can't find a way to generate the file that doesn't take a few hours to create, I'm not going to bother writing a program that would make the ccf from it.

Have you looked at xmltv.com? I use the XmlTv program to get listing in xml format. I grab data for one day at a time, so I run the program 7 times, it takes about 15 minutes. Then I wrote a program to parse the files and pull out the time, title and station. I do a text search, I don't know xml. I then used some of the SuperNudeList graphics and ideas to build my ccf. It actually works great for me. I have devices named Mon, Tues, etc. Then I have panels for each of the start times, listing all of the shows for that hour. I only due 8pm to 10pm, but it is changable through a small GUI. I have also connected the tab to my Cable panel so that when I press the tab for the show it takes me to that station. Btw I have a 1000.

So as I said it works great for my ccf. I will say right out that coding is a "Hack" of a "c" program. Lots of bad programming, but I just wanted something that works. I have not tried any other ccfs to see if it would be generic. I was planning on uploading it soon, maybe someone could improve on it. I use the XmlTv program tv_grab_na (North America), I don't know how the others work.

Rob

Rob,

I found a program called DigiGuide last night and have been going through it. It has an export program that comes with it, but it appears to only export for the current day. I posted a question on their forum to see if it's possible to export a range of days. One way around it is to change the computer date and export it again for each day. I could automate it somewhat. It's a subscription based service, but it's only $12 a year. That's not too bad.

Just got a response on the other forum. Looks like you can export several days at a time. Time to get to work!