Broadcatching Feed
I added a feed on the right to show the last couple of shows that I've gotten using RSS + Bittorrent. I had wanted an RSS feed for my Tivo for so long, and now that one is available, I don't even use my Tivo anymore. So I decided to throw this one together.
Its a Python script that will eventually be running on my Xbmc itself. It logs into the SMB share that I have created for my Tv shows, (the same one Xbmc uses to view content), and scrapes the “Now Playing” directory for all its files. It then sorts the files by date and grabs all their relevant information like show name, season, episode. It then uses TvTome to get a synopsis of the show. When its all done it writes out the feed and uploads it to my webserver.
Its a pretty thorough script. I could have just hosted this on my media server but I wanted to make it available to be used on Xbmc.
Once I'm comfortable with the script, I'll make it available.
For now here's the feed: Broadcatching Feed
Awesome…
I’ve been wanting something like this for ages! So I dont have to tell my flatmates what new stuff I’ve gotten.
It does sound like a rather convoluted way of getting the rss feed file out.. but if it works and serves its purpose, then i guess it’s worthwhile.
It’d be cool if this script ran on startup of the XBMC. It’s too bad you can’t host it on the XBMC, that’d be sweet. No need for external web hosts.
Is there any way that you could send a copy to me to use for my setup? :)
Cheers!
Comment by camson — March 7, 2006 @ 3:02 am