2009-10-27, 01:34
azido Wrote:the way of storing them will not change, so queries should always work the same (until i know how to create an api for that. i have skills in creating websites in php and a database, but not for building an api yet).
All a scraper *really* requires is easily acquired "hooks" within the html / xml. A way to easily identify where the fields are exactly on the page.
But if you're interested the TVDB has some information on their API: http://thetvdb.com/wiki/index.php?title=Programmers_API
I think I recall seeing the actual source for the TVDB website somewhere too, I'm pretty sure it's freely available somewhere. You could aways modify it to suit.
( yep it's here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/tvdb/ )