TV Guide API List

Question

Does anyone know a provider offering TV listings (via API or download) for all channel and cable providers?

Or is there any independent company that collects / provides such data? The API / REST / SOAP interface will be great.

Answer 1

MythTV people have gathered resources for different countries here . If you are in the US or Canada, they recommend Schedule Direct .

These services are usually based on an XMLTV data format / toolbox.

Answer 2

Rovi offers both SOAP and REST APIs for TV shows. It provides listings for all channels of cable, satellite and broadcast services in different countries. Rovi is the source cable companies use. See the site .

Answer 3

Schedule Direct does not provide commercial licenses. I am checking tvrage as above and Rovi right now.

Edit: If this is a commercial project, I recommend contacting Tribune Media Services (click on “Licens our content” in the Zap2It.com footer). It was the decision I chose for my company, simply because they were much faster in their response than Rovi. Paid listings are XML files.

If you need a non-commercial license, SchedulesDirect works very well. If you have questions about licensing them, they advise you to ask. We started using our listings, and then we had to change course due to licensing issues.

Answer 4

You can contact the WebTelevideo staff at [e-mail] who solved your problem. They can provide you an account in their own API.

The WebTelevideo API has TV planning for many countries and metadata (actors, directors, plot, trailers, posters, etc.).