Article:		Hacking the XML in Your TiVo
Subject:		Is this possible from VB.Net without wget?
Date:		2006-03-01 01:18:15
From:		gpstefansson
Hi, I am doing a similar thing (not with Tivo) but I would like to accomplish this via .NET. Is it possible?

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• Is this possible from VB.Net without wget?
  2006-03-01 05:45:51 Bob DuCharme [Reply]
  
  The key thing that make this all possible is that the (TiVo brand) Digital Video Recorder has a built-in HTTP (i.e. web) server, accessible from a computer in your home when your TiVo is on your home network, that can deliver both HTML and XML. It delivers the XML using a REST interface, and I chose to use the wget tool to retrieve it, but anything that can do an HTTP GET can do so. I did it from both a Linux box and a Windows box; the platform you're retrieving from doesn't matter. (A Google search on 'vb.net "http get" ' gets over 59,000 hits.)

  
  So, if your DVR has an HTTP server, look at its documentation or do some web searches to find out how to get access to whatever data it has to offer.