OnConnect Sport Listing data - gracenote

I recently created an application for the Gracenote OnConnect platform specifically to query Sport tv listings data. My project is an open source tool to allow users to easily find the channel for a given search event. So for example, if I wanted to find out when and on what channel the Yankees vs Red Sox game was tonight, I would go this site, search "Yankees vs Red Sox" and see that it is on ESPN at 7pm.
I've received an API key from the OnConnect API on the "Public Plan" and have made a few calls. It seems as though some of the required data is there, but I wanted to get some feedback before getting into the weeds. First of all, could I use the available API using the free public plan to get this kind of data? If so, do you have any suggestions for how to work with the API including specific endpoints to hit or consumption patterns?
Thank you,
Vance Faulkner

OnConnect API Public Plan is only for you to try out and test internally. Therefore, you cannot use it in your open source tool.

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How can I RSS subscribe to Ethereum address?

Since everything is on-chain in Ethereum blockchain. Theoretically, each event is public visible and can be summed up as a block event. Is it possible to subscribe to events of non-contract addresses and create a feed page like RSS subscription?
It is possible, but honestly, I have never seen integration with the RSS protocol.
However, writing your script in the programming language is very easy. The procedure is well documented in the official geth documentation: https://goethereumbook.org/event-subscribe/
I would use this as a reference for other languages.
There is one big problem for you. To subscribe to Ethereum, you need access to the Ethereum node to get events from it.
There are three options from the best to the worst (in my opinion).
You can use the API from parties that provide access to ethereum networks. Example of it is INFURA, Alchemy and QuickNode. The huge disadventage is that requests are limited and you will use it very fast. Probably in minutes or hours.
You can create your own node connected to the Ethereum, but you need pretty fast computer/stable internet and 1TB SSD hard drive to keep it stable.
Find publicly available node. Usualy those nodes are not very stable and you will get ban soon. To discover ethereum nodes you can use Shodan. I have tried houndred times to use the public nodes to write my apps and those nodes are not stable. Each stable node is protected and does not allow to send any request to it...
If you need to read data from specific addresses you can use the Etherscan API - I love it as it is much easier than using the ETH API :)
There is an opensource protocol named RSS3 dedicated to RSS service on blockchain.
Its third-party API accesses the Ethereum network and creates a feed of any ENS address. The protocol not only displays transactions of the ENS, but also identifies and filter different types of on-chain transactions.
(check how more on RSS3 Docs and its Github)
The feed can be generated to a standard XML format RSS file, or import the RSS URL or that address directly to any RSS reader.
Take ETH founder Vitalik's ENS address (vitalik.eth) for example.
Access RSS3.io and type in the ENS
enter vitalik.eth
Generate RSS file
Click the RSS icon on the right and get the RSS file:
https://rss3.io/rss/0xd8da6bf26964af9d7eed9e03e53415d37aa96045/
Generate RSS URL
Go to https://rss3.io/manage and generate an RSS feed for an address/ENS.
Type in Vitalik.eth and get different types of RSS feed subscription:
All feeds: https://rss3.io/rss/vitalik.eth
These URLs should work in any RSS reader.

How can I redirect messages from telegram channels that are in certain format?[telegram bot]

I have many telegram channels, 24\7 they send messages in the format
"buy usdjpy sl 145.2 tp 167.4"
"eurusd sell sl 145.2 tp 167.4"
"eurusd sl 145.2 tp 167.4 SELL"
or these words in some order
My idea is to create app that checks every channel's message, and redirects it to my channel if it is in the above format.
Does telegram api allow it?
I have written a simple python code, using the telethon python module.
What the code basically does, is forwarding messages from various telegram channels through the telegram client api to a channel of your choosing. You can find it here.
Using the client api, one is able to read messages from groups and channels that your user is a part of. No bots required.
The telethon module makes it easy to filter messages that you want to be read. Feel free to fork the project and make the desired changes. You should look at the module documentation here.
You cannot scrape from a telegram channel with a bot, unless, the bot is an administrator in the channel, which only the owner can add.
Once that is done, you can easily redirect posts to your channel by listening for channel_post updates.
In order to be able to scrape messages from Telegram channels that you do not own, you need to develop you own Telegram client that is capable of:
Joining your desired channels by links
Forwarding messages, arriving to the channels your client is subscribed to, to your own Telegram channel
In order to develop your own Telegram client, you need to use some implementation of MTProto.
You can find a lot of implementations of MTProto on https://github.com using mtproto keyword.
A few examples of well-documented implementations:
In PHP: https://github.com/danog/MadelineProto
In Python: http://github.com/LonamiWebs/Telethon
But probably it would be an overkill to develop your own solution to this problem if the only thing you want is to have several redirections from existing Telegram channels to your own channel.
There are applications that provide such a service.
For example, there is MultiFeed Bot that allows you to setup forwarding of messages from any Telegram channels to your own Telegram channel.
This bot has a flexible filtering system so it should be pretty easy to setup filters to skip certain types of messages (ads, media content and etc.) and to leave only those messages that you want to see in your destination channel.
I solved a similar problem with TdLib. Their GitHub site has full C++, Java and C# examples that you can just modify.
I worked on the Java example, and applied most of my changes to the UpdatesHandler.onResult method (line 353). The C++ and C# examples have a similar structure. This method gets called by Td whenever any event occurs. Hence you can just intercept them there.
If you're not really sure where to begin, start by adding simple System.out.println statements (if using Java) to each of the case statements in the aforementioned method, and make sure you read the starting guide.
They actually have examples for many other languages (Python included), but from my point of view they are not as complete as the three I mentioned before.
This is very easy to do with Full Telegram API.
first on your mobile phone subscribe to all the interested channels
Next you develop a simple telegram client the receives all the updates from these channels
Next you build some parsers that can understand the channel messages and filter out what you are interested in
Finally you send the filtered content (re-formatted) to your own channel.
that's all that is required.
Is this what are you looking for? telegram-forward-bot
In the readme file:
Simple Telegram Bot for forwarding messages easily between various related channels and groups.
This bot allows you to automatically forward messages between different channels. We use it on our Student Comitee because we have like 15 different Telegram groups for each commission we are working on. Then, if we want some commission receives some important information, we can automatically forward to them using hashtags at the beggining of the message (or the caption of a media file).
I think I know your feeling, I'am trader and I follow various prediction channel. But not all of the information is usefull (sometimes ads). Hope this work for you :)
Got the solution to this problem.
Here is bot which automatically forwards messages from one channel to another without the forward tag.
Moreover the copying speed is legit!
#copythatbot
This is the golden tool everyone is looking for.
Depending on the language you want to use there are many libraries you can use to get the job done.
Let's take for example python, you can use libraries such as Telethon (for both user or bots) or "python telegram bot".
Both libraries are fantastic on what they do. Telethon is async so I kinda lean more towards it.
To do what your looking for you will need to catch the event.Message and use python regex re module for matching patterns from the messages.
Here's the code you want using Telethon:
import re
from telethon import TelegramClient, sync, events
# These example values won't work. You must get your own api_id and
# api_hash from https://my.telegram.org, under API Development.
api_id = 12345
api_hash = '0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef'
client = TelegramClient('session_name', api_id, api_hash).start()
#client.on(events.NewMessage(chats=('TelethonChat', 'TelethonOffTopic')))
async def message_regex(event):
pattern = re.compile(".*145\.2 tp 167\.4.*", re.M)
raw_text = event.raw_text
if pattern.match(raw_text, raw_text):
## Pattern matched do something
pass
You just need to change the api keys and it should work properly. Now to add other things you will need knowledge about programming and python.
If you are looking for a simple solution you can always use this bot I've made #tg_feedbot
This is a bot used for forwarding messages from one/multiple groups to others. The way it works is by using your telegram account and when a message comes - if you have configured it so - it sees it and rewrites it to the channels you want. You can edit the way the message looks, filter it, delay and change words.
It's a free solution for automating Telegram User API and it has a simple to use interface together with documentation
If you are keen on learning yourself then I would suggest you to join Telegram groups such as Telethon or >>> telegram.Bot()

Any API for TSYS(TOTAL SYSTEM SERVICES)

It's a credit card company and is using a system called "Tsys" from "TOTAL SYSTEM SERVICES, INC". In order to get the information from the "Tsys", it's using Reflecltion for IBM 9 to connect to the "Tsys" server to get information. And for the sake of efficientcy, it's using VBA macro to simulate user's input in reflection to get information. However it's still very slow and easy to be interrupted by other application.
For any people who is familiar with "tsys", is there any API(Java or C#) that allow people to communicate with the Tsys server directly without using third party software like reflection for IBM?
Yes.
TSYS offers their TransIT API for developer integration. See here to sign up and get access.

Methods to AutoRefersh RSS on Android?

Hello I'm currently new to android and I'm trying to make a simple RSS application on android.
I've put a together all basic aspects of the application as the parser and fetching the RSS through Http connection through ASyncTask as well as displaying the data in a listView.
How can I refresh the RSS feed (Google News) without starting the application ?? What is the best method for it (Push/Pull) and a simple explanation on implementing?? Thanks.
Option 1:
Implement AlarmManager which will start background service every specific time, complete action and go to sleep until further call.
https://developer.android.com/training/scheduling/alarms.html
Option 2:
Use Google Cloud Messaging (server sends your phone data which triggers app/service to start) and do action. However I don't think this is required unless you want it to get new data when it's available rather than every specific interval.

Searching BizTalk MessageBox?

Need to make a tool to search XML data from BizTalk messagebox.
How do I search all XML data related to lets say a common node called Employee ID from all data stored in the BizTalk MessageBox?
The BizTalk Message Box (BizTalkMsgBoxDb database) is a transient store for messages as they pass through BizTalk. Once a message has finished processing, it will be removed from the Message Box.
You probably want to research Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) which will allow you to capture message data as messages flow through BizTalk; message data can be exposed through its generic web-based portal. BAM is a big product in its own right and I would suggest that you invest time in researching all of the available features to find the one that suits your particular scenario. There are many, many resources available, however you might start by taking look at Business Activity Monitoring. There is also a very good book specifically on BAM: Pro BAM in BizTalk Server 2009
Alternatively, take a look at using the built-in BizTalk Administration Console tools for querying the Tracking database (BizTalkDTADb) which will hold messages for later reference based on your pre-defined configuration options. See Using BizTalk Document Tracking.
Finally, you could consider rolling your own message tracking solution, writing message contents to a SQL Database table, as messages are received in a pipeline for example.
Check out the BizTalk Message Decompressor on CodePlex! I've been using this tool for a couple of years with excellent results. Since you're hitting the messagebox directly, you should be very careful and be very familiar with the queries that you choose to execute.
As noted by a previous poster's answer, BAM and the integrated HAT queries in the admin console are the official, safest, and Microsoft prescribed answers.

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