From: Phlip Date: 2007-07-30T05:10:01+09:00 Subject: Re: hpricot and xpath doesn't work like they should ?!? anansi wrote: > Phlip wrote: >> BTW scraping TV guide listings is ... kind'a tacky. Aren't the actual >> data feeds available somewhere? > thanks for your hint with the id-tags but what you mean with this here? > rss-feeds ? I'm not aware of any of them .. That's what I mean - neither am I aware of any. But the TV guide services get their data from somewhere, and (under the wild assumption that TV programmers want you to find their shows and watch them) these feeds should not be proprietary. But note that electronic TV guides predate RSS... -- Phlip http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596510657/ ^ assert_xpath http://tinyurl.com/23tlu5 <-- assert_raise_message