The Radio Times web site got a bit of a makeover a couple of days ago. It looks a lot nicer now and feels a bit faster.
What it needs now is some nice RSS feeds. “What’s on now” or “On Channel 4 tonight” – things like that. And. of course, a web services API would be really cool. It seems a shame to have all that luvverly data and not to be able to access it programmatically.
I’ve emailed them and passed on my opinion. It’s radio.times@bbc.co.uk if you feel like doing the same.
They do have the data available for download at least. It’s at http://xmltv.radiotimes.com/xmltv/channels.dat
Ah. And the data for the individual channels is in (for example) http://xmltv.radiotimes.com/xmltv/92.dat.The “92” there comes from the channel number in http://xmltv.radiotimes.com/xmltv/channels.dat – so that example is for BBC1.And there’s the most excellent XMLTV project (http://membled.com/work/apps/xmltv/ ) doing useful work with all this data.I’d still like RSS feeds and a Web Services API tho’ – call me greedy :)