Hi Ken sorry for the delay in replying as I've been on holiday. 

Thanks for the comment, very good to know, never thought about asking for a special page generally when you visit a site you get what you see and I would never normally think about asking for something tailored for my own very specific needs.

My script was hacked together and I just wanted the job done I'm sure there are better ways to do it, it was a good learning experience.

As it stands the script downloads the calender page and grabs the numeric value of the number of shows in the queue. It only gets run once a day and shouldn't put much of a strain on the HPR servers even in the unlikely event that many people find it useful. 

Basically I need to capture the number of shows left in the HPR queue. I would imagine the simplest way would be to serve a page giving a numeric value of the number of shows in the HPR queue. If you can arrange for that or think of a better solution that would be great. 

I'll then have a think about how to modify my script and perhaps if I get time will do a quick follow up show

Cheers MrX