<header>
<title>Automatic Recording for KiSS Hard Disk Recorders</title>
</header>
- <body>
+ <body>
+ <warning>
+ KiSS makes regular updates to their site that sometimes require adaptations
+ to the crawler. If it stops working, check out the most recent version here.
+ </warning>
+ <section id="changelog">
+ <title>Changelog</title>
+ <section>
+ <title>13-20 August 2006</title>
+ <p>
+ There were several changes to the login procedure, requiring modifications to the crawler.
+ </p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>The crawler now uses the 'Referer' header field correctly at login.</li>
+ <li>KiSS now uses hidden form fields in their login process which are now also handled correctly by the
+ crawler.</li>
+ </ul>
+ </section>
+ </section>
<section id="overview">
<title>Overview</title>
The screen should show an overview of the last time it ran (if
it ran before) as well as a button to run the crawler immediately.
Also, the result of the last run can be viewed.
- The crawler will run automatically every morning at 5 AM local time.
+ The crawler will run automatically every morning at 5 AM local time,
+ and will retry at 1 hour intervals in case of failure to retrieve
+ programme information.
</p>
</section>
task (e.g. cron on unix). For the web application this is
preconfigured at 5AM.
</p>
+ <note>
+ If you deploy the web application today, it will run automatically
+ on the next (!) day. This even holds if you deploy the application
+ before 5AM in the morning.
+ </note>
+
<p>
Modifying the program to allow it to investigate tomorrow's
programs instead is easy as well but not yet implemented.
git://wamblee.org / utils / blobdiff