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archive of german online teletexts
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archive of german online teletexts
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/defgsus/teletext-archive-unicode
- Owner: defgsus
- Created: 2022-02-21T03:17:42.000Z (over 2 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2023-01-01T18:10:51.000Z (almost 2 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-10-10T15:40:59.919Z (about 1 month ago)
- Language: Python
- Homepage:
- Size: 875 MB
- Stars: 2
- Watchers: 2
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
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# archive of (german) online teletexts
Or *videotext*, as we used to call it.
[](https://github.com/defgsus/teletext-archive/actions/workflows/scraper.yml)
(turned off, follow-up data is in [teletext-archive-2023](https://github.com/defgsus/teletext-archive-2023))
This repo uses github actions to scrape teletext pages from
web sources and converts the html into easy digestible json/unicode files.
The data is stored in [docs/snapshots](docs/snapshots) in a new-line
delimited json file for each station.
### scraped stations:
| station | since | type | link
|:--------------------------------------|:-----------|:-----|:----
| ✔ [3sat](docs/snapshots/3sat) | 2022-01-28 | html with font-map | https://blog.3sat.de/ttx/
| ✔ [ARD](docs/snapshots/ard) | 2022-01-28 | html | https://www.ard-text.de/
| ✔ [NDR](docs/snapshots/ndr) | 2022-01-27 | html | https://www.ndr.de/fernsehen/videotext/index.html
| ✔ [n-tv](docs/snapshots/ntv) | 2022-01-28 | json | https://www.n-tv.de/mediathek/teletext/
| ✔ [SR](docs/snapshots/sr) | 2022-01-28 | html | https://www.saartext.de/
| ✔ [WDR](docs/snapshots/wdr) | 2022-01-28 | html | https://www1.wdr.de/wdrtext/index.html
| ✔ [ZDF](docs/snapshots/zdf) | 2022-01-27 | html | https://teletext.zdf.de/teletext/zdf/
| ✔ [ZDFinfo](docs/snapshots/zdf-info) | 2022-01-27 | html | https://teletext.zdf.de/teletext/zdfinfo/
| ✔ [ZDFneo](docs/snapshots/zdf-neo) | 2022-01-27 | html | https://teletext.zdf.de/teletext/zdfneo/
### :star: view it :star:
Setup a python env, install `requirements.txt` and call `python show.py`.
You can browse pages *horizontally* and *vertically*,
meaning **through history**.
The snapshots are loaded from the git repo in the back. There are about
3 snapshots per day.
 
 
### format
Each line is one complete json object.
Each file starts with a simple line like this. All timestamps are UTC.
```json
{"scraper":"3sat","timestamp":"2022-02-05T04:09:36"}
```
Then each page starts like this:
```json
{"page":100,"sub_page":1,"timestamp":"2022-02-05T04:09:36"}
```
and is followed by lines of content like this:
```json
[["wb"," "],["rb","🬦🬚🬋🬋🬩🬚🬹 "],["bb","🬞🬭🬏 🬭🬭 🬻🬭 "]]
[["wb"," "],["rb","▐█🬱🬵🬆🬵█ "],["bb","█🬒🬎🬉🬆🬨▌█🬂 "],["rb"," "]]
[["wb"," "],["rb","▐█🬝🬟🬜██ "],["bb","🬁🬬🬱🬞🬜🬬▌█ "],["rb"," "]]
[["wb"," "],["rb","▐█🬬█🬱🬁█ "],["bb","🬬🬹🬝🬉🬺🬜▌🬬🬜 "],["rb"," "]]
[["wb"," "],["rb","▐🬲🬁🬎🬎🬞█ "]]
[["wb"," "],["rb","🬉🬎🬌🬋🬋🬎🬎 "]]
[["wb"," "],["rb","🬂🬂🬂🬂🬂🬂🬂🬂🬂🬂🬂🬂🬂🬂🬂🬂🬂🬂🬂🬂🬂🬂🬂🬂🬂🬂🬂🬂🬂🬂🬂🬂🬂🬂🬂🬂🬂 "]]
[["wb"," "],["rb","502 "],["bb","Köln will Benin-Bronzen "]]
[["wb"," "],["rb"," "],["bb","zurückgeben "]]
[["wb"," "],["rb","401 "],["bb","Wetterwerte und Prognosen "]]
[["wb"," "],["rb","525 "],["bb","Theater und Konzerte Österreich "]]
[["wb"," "],["rb","555 "],["bb","Buchtipps und Literatur "]]
[["wb"," "],["rb","🬭🬭🬭🬭🬭🬭🬭🬭🬭🬭🬭🬭🬭🬭🬭🬭🬭🬭🬭🬭🬭🬭🬭🬭🬭🬭🬭🬭🬭🬭🬭🬭🬭🬭🬭🬭🬭 "]]
[["wb"," "],["rb","Jetzt in 3sat "]]
[["wb"," "],["rb"," "],["wb","04:39 Kurzstrecke mit Pierre M. "]]
[["wb"," "],["rb"," "],["wb","Krause ................. 343 "]]
[["wb"," "],["rb"," "],["wb","05:01 Kurzstrecke mit Pierre M. "]]
[["wb"," "],["rb"," "],["wb","Krause ................. 344 "]]
[["wb"," "]]
[["wb"," "],["rb","🬋🬋🬋 "],["bb","Nachrichten 200 Sport "]]
[["wb"," "],["bb","112 Deutschland 300 Programm "]]
[["wb"," "],["bb","150 Österreich 400 Wetter/Verkehr"]]
[["wb"," "],["bb","151 Schweiz 500 Kultur "]]
[["wb"," "]]
[["wb"," "]]
```
Each content line consists of one or several blocks with color and text.
The two-letter color code represents foreground and background colors
(**b**lack, **r**ed, **g**reen, b**l**ue, **m**agenta, **c**yan, **w**hite).
A third argument might be in one block which would then be a link to another table:
```json
[["wb", 101, "Seite 101"]
[["wb", [101, 5], "Seite 101/5"]
```
If you can see the graphic blocks in the above example you have a font
installed that supports the unicode
[symbols for legacy computing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbols_for_Legacy_Computing)
starting at `0x1bf00`. If not, you can install a font like
[unscii](http://viznut.fi/unscii/).
The original character codes from the teletext pages are converted to
the unicode mappings via
[these tables](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletext_character_set#Graphics_character_sets).
### technicals
- Scraping is currently done about every 8 hours. I'd love to leave this
running **forever** but need to watch the growing repository size.
The [alpha version](https://github.com/defgsus/teletext-archive) exploded
in only a few weeks time.
- To walk the historical commits look at file
[docs/snapshots/zdf.ndjson](docs/snapshots/zdf.ndjson). It's been there
since the beginning. For example, to list all commit timestamps and hashes:
```shell script
git log --reverse --pretty='%aI %H' -- docs/snapshots/zdf.ndjson
```
(However, the first 50 or so commits are replayed from another repo and the
timestamps do not fit the snapshot timestamps.)
A more convenient way is to read the contents of
[docs/snapshots/_timestamps.ndjson](docs/snapshots/_timestamps.ndjson)
which holds each snapshot commit hash and the actual snapshot timestamp.
Knowing the commit hashes, one can read the files of each commit via:
```shell script
git archive docs/snapshots > files.tar
```
Each file contains the actual timestamp of the snapshot.
- Not all special characters are decoded for each station. Currently they
are replaced by `?`.
- Before 2022-02-21, the ZDF recordings have an encoding problem which i couldn't
correctly fix afterwards. Parsing the ndjson files will actually result in
some json decoding errors because of a spooky sequence like `96 c2 00 0a` after
the letter 'Ö'. Ignoring json errors and skipping those lines works. You'll just
miss some lines in the page content. However, other stupid character sequences
are in there as well and some lines might have more than 40 characters.
Also the block graphics might be expurgated.
### related stuff
Oh boy, look what else exists on the web:
- https://archive.teletextarchaeologist.org
- http://teletext.mb21.co.uk/
- https://www.teletextart.com/
- https://galax.xyz/TELETEXT/
- https://zxnet.co.uk/teletext/viewer/
## TODO
- there is at least one other character set with thinner box graphics.
it's not supported by unicode but it would be good to store
at least the charset switch
- unrecognized chars on **NTV 218**
- ZDF scraper report in commit message only shows *pages added*
## TODO other sites
- **SWR** https://www.swrfernsehen.de/videotext/index.html
They only deliver gif files, boy!
- **KIKA** https://www.kika.de/kikatext/kikatext-start100.html
Images once more
- **Seven-One** https://www.sevenonemedia.de/tv/portfolio/teletext/teletext-viewer
This is the Pro7/Sat1 empire. They have **a lot** of channels. All images :(
- **VOX** https://www.vox.de/cms/service/footer-navigation/teletext.html
Requires .. aehm ... Flash :rofl:
### beyond the borders
- **CT** https://www.ceskatelevize.cz/teletext/ct/
Images
- **Swiss Teletext** https://mobile.txt.ch/
Does not really seem to work - with my script-blockers anyways
- **SRF** https://www.teletext.ch/
Images
- **ORF** https://teletext.orf.at/
JSON API delivering ... image-urls
- **HRT** https://teletekst.hrt.hr/
Images
- **RTVSLO** https://teletext.rtvslo.si/
Images
- **NOS** https://nos.nl/teletekst
- **Supersport** https://www.supersport.hr/teletext/661
- **RTVFBiH** https://teletext.rtvfbih.ba/
Images
- **??** https://www.teletext.hu/
Many things i cannot read
- **TRT** https://www.trt.net.tr/Kurumsal/Teletext.aspx
Not getting it to work
- **Markiza** https://markizatext.sk/
Not getting it to work, either
- **RTP** https://www.rtp.pt/wportal/teletexto/
Images
- **SVT** https://www.svt.se/text-tv/101
Images