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by ja002h

V2.1 May 29, 2008 2:42:57 PM

A widget for showing TV Listings, pulled from Zap2it.com

A real-time TV guide for the United States, pulled from zap2it.com. Uses AJAX to provide nearly instantaneous (depending on your connection speed of course) scrolling across time, no reload required!

Other features:
-pick your specific location and provider - not just national listings
-only display your favorite channels
-custom color background for different genre types
-open a single channel up in a new window
-click on a program and view a popup with program details
-search listings (new window)

Changelog:
v2.0: fix to comply with some zap2it changes, add version check.

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Fixed the listing display issue. Thanks!

However, I also see that the program detail is now buggy. Repeated station logo and lots of text that doesn't belong.

By skapig, # May 10, 2007 2:30:28 PM

Works again, but has a new bug: when set to "Display favorite channels only" the listings are displayed with empty rows in the positions where the unmarked channels would be displayed if the option were disabled.

Great widget and one of my most often used.

By skapig, # May 7, 2007 1:16:09 AM

Zap2it has completely changed their code, I'm working on it now. Hopefully I'll have it updated in the next day or 2..

By ja002h, # Apr 29, 2007 10:12:31 PM

What is wrong with this right now?
It won't work for me either.

By ddebenedictics, # Apr 28, 2007 8:04:58 PM

Yeah I was trying to use it yesterday and found it wasn't working anymore either. They must have changed the html or URL again, I'll check it out...

By ja002h, # Apr 28, 2007 4:35:37 PM

I downloaded the latest version (1.22) of this widget and had to customize the new version. As an aside, it would be nice if Opera supported updating an existing widget so that configuration information isn't lost and it would also be nice if the "Widget properties" pop-up window launched by the "Properties..." menu item displayed the version number. But my real concern is the customization of the latest version didn't work. When I tried to enter my postal code (which worked fine when I customized the previous version of this widget), the result was very strange behaviour. I suspect that zap2it may be deliberately trying to find ways to undermine the functionality of your widget, probably in order to force users of their web site to view their ads (which would suggest that they haven't heard of ad-blocking).

By R.A.Hicks, # Apr 27, 2007 6:14:08 PM

wow!!! great widget! just need more colors for the genres.

thanks.

By HeeZy, # Apr 16, 2007 5:36:27 PM

This is very cool. Can you put sound reminders for when a favorite show is about to start? That would be awesome.

By petrormpetro, # Apr 12, 2007 6:04:24 PM

... zap2it had changed the URL, so it actually wasn't related to Opera's version at all.

By ja002h, # Apr 10, 2007 7:01:38 AM

Thanks, I'll look into it..

By ja002h, # Apr 9, 2007 6:09:10 AM

Stopped working after installing Opera 9.20 Build 8767

By dotroni, # Apr 5, 2007 1:06:50 AM

Oh, this is good. My wife asks me all the time, "when is [whatever] on?" And I'm not a fan of hunting down listings and weeding through all the crap.
This widget will save me so much time!

By ChaosTechnician, # Feb 24, 2007 0:04:40 AM

What a wonderful Widget!!!!!!!!!!

Yes it could be improved, but it is very good for starters!

By concerti, # Jan 26, 2007 11:36:38 PM

The part where you add/remove channels isn't working, and the view of the grid is just a mishmash of centered text. Nice idea, but the presentation needs improvement.

By sefitz, # Jan 24, 2007 11:30:06 AM

Hm, that's strange. I've never seen that before. I'm pretty sure episteuo's problem was the one I fixed in 1.21.

By ja002h, # Jan 15, 2007 8:45:13 AM

Looks really good, even though I'm not from the US and don't know what the channels are!

Does anyone else get a 100% CPU usage freeze when retrieving listings? I'm using O9.10 on Windows. Could this be the same problem episteuo had?

By johnnysaucepn, # Jan 14, 2007 4:31:29 PM

this works for canada too thank you

By amuro, # Jan 12, 2007 3:27:32 AM

this is the most useful widget thanks

By amuro, # Jan 12, 2007 3:26:01 AM

v1.21: I'm not sure what happened, but somehow the v1.2 code was all messed up, including not having the change (multiple channels) that I specifically uploaded it for, and an unrelated bug that screwed up the time value.

If you're currently on 1.2, I recommend you download the widget again. As always, let me know if you have any problems.

By ja002h, # Jan 8, 2007 8:35:48 AM

I love this idea, but I can't get it to load the grid after the first time I used it. Also the "display favorite channels only" does not work for me. I would love to use this...any suggestions? Windows XP sp2 Opera v. 9.02 Thanks! It's a great idea.

By episteuo, # Jan 5, 2007 9:28:05 AM