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SKY Italia has recently changed their online programming guide, and there are no available scripts to download data for xmltv or media center. MegaEPG seems to be the perfect utility for getting this data.

I'm not familiar with programming, but have had a look at the HTML source, and challenge anyone capable of making a script for SKY Italia!

SKY Italia EPG
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Here is a challenge, creating a script to parse the new online EPG of Sky Italia.

This is the breakdown of the HTML after javascript has loaded the current day's listings for one bouquet of channels (Entertainment category):

Entertainment channels ("Intrattenimento"), category "3":

URL:
http://guidatv.sky.it/guida_tv/selecttimeline.do?category=3

The listings are loaded by the page via javascript.

List of channels starts at "<DIV class=lineatitles>", and are listed like this:

<DIV class=canale channelId="513">
<IMG title="SKY Vivo" alt="SKY Vivo" src="http://guidatv.sky.it/static/epg/timeline/channel_icon/513.gif"></DIV>

These are the channels in the Entertainment bouquet:
513 SKY Vivo
474 Fox
133 Fox Life
139 Fox Crime
950 FX
111 E! Entertaiment
318 Comedy Central
120 SKY Show
304 Discovery RT
457 Raisat Extra  
458 Raisat Premium  
974 ALL Music
636 Fantasy
443 AXN
473 Hallmark Channel
517 BBC Prime
530 Jimmy
137 Cult
635 Fox +1
529 FoxLife +1
588 Fox Crime +1
899 Rai Uno
898 Rai Due
897 Rai Tre
892 Rete 4
893 Canale 5
894 Italia 1
733 La7

The listings are downloaded for one day (24 hrs) at a time, starting from 00:00 to 24:00 of the current date.

Programme listings for each channel start at "<DIV class=linea channelId="513">"
(this is the <DIV> tag for channel 513 Sky Vivo, giving in succession the programmes for this channel from 0:00 to 24:00)

The start and length of each programme is not given with a time, but is programmed into the HTML as pixels (to indicate the distance on a time scale), for instance, if the width of the <div> tag is 120 it indicates 30 minutes running time. Every 10 minutes equals 40px.  The starting time of each programme has to be calculated based on the accumulated running time of the previous programmes, starting from 00:00 hrs)

Each programme listing is contained within these tags:

<DIV class=XX style="WIDTH: XXXpx">
</DIV>

The width variable indicates the length of the programme, eg. 120px means 30 minutes, or 240px means 60 minutes.

The tag can be empty, with no programme information, for instance:

<DIV class=p2 style="WIDTH: 120px">
</DIV>

Or the tag can contain spacer and the programme title (in this case the title is "Le ragazze di...", for instance:

<DIV class=p2 style="WIDTH: 120px">
  <DIV>
    <DIV class=b>
    </DIV>
  </DIV>
  <A class=jTip id=12018583 href="javascript:void(0)" path="c3/d1">
    Le ragazze di P...
  </A>
</DIV>

Detailed programme information is downloaded by the jTip javascript, which I haven't been able to locate.