Reading a Channel's Program Schedule using gracenote
- Georg Hentsch (Unlicensed)
gracenote supports programming schedules for broadcast stations worldwide. We have built a reader to read these schedules:
After launching the reader, fill in your apikey, select the time zone you want to use (since gracenote uses UTC) and a ratings body. Also, you can optionally download images from gracenote:
After that, choose the channels you want program schedules for by searching on channel names:
You can see the list of channels selected in the Channels tab:
The reader will pull in program schedules using the time interval set in the Setup tab.
In flow, you can see the schedule in the program schedule tab of Branding->Programs:
The reader supports ratings, episodes, synopsis and more. For example, a non-episodic show includes the following meta data:
And episodic shows includes:
Even sports events are supported to include logos for team matchups: