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cool_dude
Visitor
13 years ago

BRAND NEW to ROKU DEVELOPMENT

Hi I am very new to Roku and would like to learn Roku development. I want to basically extract (scrap) videos and live tv from some public websites to my roku channel. Is that possible? If so, could someone point me to a easy to learn tutorial or some guidelines? It would be a big help...thanks a lot in advance.

cool_dude
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  • jeffrok's avatar
    jeffrok
    Roku Guru
    13 years ago
    You posted at 1am.. Not a lot of people post between 1am and 10am.. I'm sure you'll get more replies at a more "prime" time.
  • destruk's avatar
    destruk
    Streaming Star
    13 years ago
    If you haven't looked at the pinned/sticky thread in this forum here - viewtopic.php?f=34&t=36014 - that is a good place to begin.
    And be sure to download the SDK as that has a whole lot of sample applications to get you started.
  • RokuChris's avatar
    RokuChris
    Roku Employee
    13 years ago
    "cool_dude" wrote:
    Hi I am very new to Roku and would like to learn Roku development. I want to basically extract (scrap) videos and live tv from some public websites to my roku channel. Is that possible? If so, could someone point me to a easy to learn tutorial or some guidelines? It would be a big help...thanks a lot in advance.


    Yes, scraping is possible. There's no tutorial specifically for that approach that I know of. When going through the documentation, check out roURLTransfer and roRegEx. Those components will be big players in any scraping logic you plan to develop.
  • cool_dude's avatar
    cool_dude
    Visitor
    13 years ago
    Thank you guys. I would love to hear more about this while I go through SDK development.