SkyPHP

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Introduction

This project aims to provide a PHP library to allow the extraction of television programme data from the Sky TV platform and to allow remote recording.

What's what?

The main library code is in the "Sky.php" file in the includes directory of the repository. Some test files are in the test directory.

  cd test
  ./getlistings.php
  

should get some data.

Functions

getListings

Fetch Sky TV listings e.g.

{
    "channels": {
        "title": "Sky Comedy",
        "channeltype": "1",
        "channelid": "1002",
        "genre": "6",
        "program": {
            "eventid": "492",
            "channelid": "1002",
            "date": "05/05/12",
            "start": "1336205400000",
            "dur": "6600",
            "title": "The Back-Up Plan",
            "shortDesc": "Single and longing for a baby, Jennifer Lopez resorts to artificial insemination. Minutes later she meets her dream man, but how will he react to her secret? Romcom fun. (2010)(100 mins) Also in HD",
            "genre": "6",
            "subgenre": "4",
            "edschoice": "false",
            "parentalrating": {
                "k": "3",
                "v": "12"
            },
            "widescreen": "",
            "sound": {
                "k": "3",
                "v": "Digital surround sound"
            },
            "remoteRecordable": "false",
            "record": "1",
            "scheduleStatus": "PLAYING_NOW",
            "blackout": "false",
            "movielocator": "null"
        }
    }
}

You must supply a list of channel ids.

getChannelList

Get a list of channels e.g.

{
    "channels": [
        {
            "channelno": "101",
            "epggenre": "12",
            "title": "BBC 1 London",
            "channeltype": "1",
            "channelid": "2002",
            "genre": "3"
        },
        {
            "channelno": "102",
            "epggenre": "12",
            "title": "BBC 2 England",
            "channeltype": "1",
            "channelid": "2006",
            "genre": "3"
        }
        
        
        ]
}

getRemoteRecordUrl

Calculates the URL to visit in your browser to remotely record a programme. (Must be logged into Sky)

getSignInUrl

Returns the URL to visit to sign in a user to Sky (essential for remote recording).

Credits

Based on SkyPy (https://github.com/vinczente/skypy)