Script that fetches tv-episode time scheduel

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#21

Wow!!!
That was slick! Thanks a lot.
Removed the dialog thing, cause I’m showing it on my desktop :smiley:

#22

Two questions.
1.I get an error message when I add “24” as a show. It says target_dates not set" or something. And it returns the last target_dates under “else”.
2. Can I make the upcomming episode bold?

#23

with your UNIX filter the first displayed episode of “24” is in the future,
so add one line to avoid this error


...
set year of d to (item 6 of w as integer) + 2000
		set target_dates to show & return -- <-- add this line
		if d < cd then
...

With AppleScript’s display capabilities: no

#24

Thanks again Stefan.
That new line did the trick.
Hmmm, no bold then. What about adding a star “*” before the entry?

#25

The added line was at the wrong place.
Here the whole script again, the upcoming episode has a star at the beginnig

property theMonths : "JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec"
set ShowList to {"PrisonBreak", "Lost", "24"}

set showDates to ""
repeat with i in ShowList
	set showDates to showDates & get_show_data(i)
end repeat
-- display dialog showDates

on get_show_data(show)
	set p_list to paragraphs of (do shell script "curl -s [url=http://epguides.com/]http://epguides.com/"[/url] & show & "/ | grep '^ *[0-9]' | sed -e 's/<[^>]*>//g' | tail -8 | cut -c1-13,28-")
	tell (current date) to set cd to it - (its time)
	set target_dates to show & return
	repeat with this_p in p_list
		set w to words of this_p
		set item 5 of w to ((offset of (item 5 of w) in theMonths) div 3 + 1)
		copy cd to d
		set day of d to item 4 of w as integer
		set month of d to item 5 of w
		set year of d to (item 6 of w as integer) + 2000
		if d < cd then
			set target_dates to show & return & " " & contents of this_p & return
		else
			set target_dates to target_dates & "*" & contents of this_p & return & return
			exit repeat
		end if
	end repeat
	return target_dates
end get_show_data
#26

thanks again Stefan.
I changed the “tail -8” to 12. So that I could view all the episodes from 24.

#27

Thanks for all your help.
Is it possible to sort the output on release dates as well?

So that it’s output looks like this: