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This works, but only if you go to smotri.com get a dynamic link of a live broadcast and pass it to this code. A scraper would have to scrape the smotri.com/broadcast/live
page and then pass all the links to the above code, and bam, I believe you have a valid scraper for smotri.com's live feeds.
what do you think?
jpickle

Yeah, that should be fairly simple for your first plugin. Let me know on your progress.

[jpickle]

I would let you know, but I can't as I don't know how to parse out the video link, the title, and the thumb. I can get the page, but I don't know how to extract only the info needed to pass to the processor code that turner wrote. I am studying, but everyone that I look up on google has all these third party libraries, and what not, and after a couple of hours of research, I just get numb.
I am trying but I feel like I am banging my head against a locked door, you know what I mean? Is there anyway, you or some one else could (Please) just do it, and then once I see how it is done, I can fully understand, and start making a real (hopefully) meaningful contribution to the XBMC project..I know that is a lot to ask, and all of you guys are really busy, but I'm afraid that is, unfortunately, the only way I will be able to do it. Any way, Thanks for all of your help, and sorry that I don't understand well enough to take some burden off of others, but I just don't, sorry.
thanks
jpickle

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start with a basic python script and then go on from there. just look at the page source, find the section with the important info, and use 'lazy' regex.

Code:

import urllib2, urllib, re, string, sys, os, traceback
HEADER = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.1) Gecko/20090715 Firefox/3.5.1'
def open_url(url):
    req = urllib2.Request(url)
    req.add_header('User-Agent', HEADER)
    content=urllib2.urlopen(req)
    data=content.read()
    content.close()
    return data

url='http://smotri.com/broadcast/list/'
data=open_url(url)
info = re.compile('<a href="/broadcast/view/\?id=(.+?)"\n><img src="(.*?)" width="100" height="75" class="Iframe" alt="(.*?)" title="(.*?)" /></a>        </div>',re.DOTALL).findall(data)
for id,thumb,alt,title in info:
    url='http://smotri.com/broadcast/view/?id='+id
    label=title.decode('utf-8')
    print label
    print url
    print thumb

[jpickle]

Wow, Thanks for that. You're good. I didn't realize it was that simple. I really appreciate your help, and I won't forget it. And I will study this and will do my best to help Xbmc.
Thank you
jpickle

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The code above isn't picking up all the streams on that page. Use this instead.

Code:

import urllib2, urllib, re, string, sys, os, traceback
HEADER = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.1) Gecko/20090715 Firefox/3.5.1'
def open_url(url):
    req = urllib2.Request(url)
    req.add_header('User-Agent', HEADER)
    content=urllib2.urlopen(req)
    data=content.read()
    content.close()
    return data

url='http://smotri.com/broadcast/list/'
data=open_url(url)
limit=re.compile('<table class="VideoList">(.+?)<div id="ajax_slider_">', re.DOTALL).findall(data)
info=re.compile('    <a href="(.+?)"\n><img src="(.*?)" width="100" height="75" class="Iframe" alt="(.*?)" title="(.*?)" /></a>        </div>',re.DOTALL).findall(limit[0])
for url,thumb,alt,title in info:
    url='http://smotri.com'+url
    label=title.decode('utf-8')
    print label
    print url
    print thumb