Schedules Direct - Replacement for zap2it's free TV listing service: Editor: Now that Zap2it has halted their free TV listing service, folks are looking for a new source of TV listings for the open-source PVRs. This site is run by the folks who gave you MythTV and are anon-profit trying to keep the costs low.
"Schedules Direct is a non-profit organization that provides raw U.S./Canadian tv listing data to Free and Open Source Applications. Those applications then use the data to provide things like PVR functionality, search tools, and private channel grids.
Schedules Direct provides *raw* data. You'll want to use one of the applications on the 'Approved Applications' list. That may be how you got here in the first place!
For applications, the data is provided in XML via a SOAP remote procedure call. If you wish to avoid SOAP calls, XMLTV provides a client that can output the raw XML or a standard XMLTV formatted file.
The cost of the service is currently US$15/3 months with a 7 day trial. We hope to lower the price by the end of the term, so recurring subscriptions are not yet offered."
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