Webgrab++ and how to use incremental updates.

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elsmandino
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Webgrab++ and how to use incremental updates.

Post by elsmandino » Wed Jan 29, 2014 3:25 pm

Hi,

I am currently using Webgrab++ for grabbing most of my EPG and have been noticing that there is an incremental mode to help speed things up - i.e to only update or add missing entries.

However, the grabber has told me that it cannot update any exisiting database.

What appears to be happening is that EPG is creating a new XMLTV document which is then placed in Argus's XMLTV folder. Argus then uses the document to update the database but then seems to delete the documents once used, which is why Webgrab++ needs to grab from scratch each time.

Is there potentially anyway around this please?

It is not the end of the world if not but grabbing can take quite a while to complete.

Thanks

anders.malm
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Re: Webgrab++ and how to use incremental updates.

Post by anders.malm » Wed Jan 29, 2014 6:58 pm

Make a .bat file that copy the tv-guide to the Argus directory. Schedule the bat file to run after webGrab++.

copy /Y "C:\ProgramData\ServerCare\WebGrab\Tvguide.xml" "C:\ProgramData\ARGUS TV\XMLTV\tvguide.xml"

elsmandino
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Re: Webgrab++ and how to use incremental updates.

Post by elsmandino » Thu Jan 30, 2014 7:04 pm

Thanks for that Anders - never thought of using a batch file.

Set it up and works great.

Much appreciated

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