Prototypes
Rebotcast Reads BBC Tv Anytime Listings
From the guy who brought you "Rebotcast reads BBC News | World | UK Edition", I now bring you "Rebotcast Reads BBC Tv Anytime Listings". This is a speech-synthesized reading of the listings. For my prototype, I have limited my scope to the "Documentary" genre in the radio listings.
This code owes a sincere debt to Leon Brocard, who wrote a series of Perl modules to parse TV Anytime listings.
The podcast is updated every day by downloading the last listings, using a "cron" job. There are some obvious improvements to make, such as including the times of each radio program. I just wanted to get a placeholder up there before the deadline.
Another improvement, more long term, would be to give users the ability to design their own feeds, by inputting parameters in a web form.
- 05 Oct 2005 05:52 PM
