archive of german online teletexts

Or videotext, as we used to call it.

DEPRECATED: Collecting raw html files every 30 minutes is just too much:

• for github: repo size is 800 mb after only 3 weeks
• for parsing: it takes 6 single-thread hours to beautiful-soup through all files in each commit

A slimmer version runs at teletext-archive-unicode

Below is historical

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This repo exists mainly because it's just possible to scrape those online teletexts with github actions. And, you know, interesting stuff might evolve from historic beholding.

The data is collected raw in docs/snapshots. Each commit adds, overwrites or removes the individual files of each teletext page.

scraped stations:

station	since	type	link
✔ 3sat	2022-01-28	html with font-map	https://blog.3sat.de/ttx/
✔ ARD	2022-01-28	html	https://www.ard-text.de/
✔ NDR	2022-01-27	html	https://www.ndr.de/fernsehen/videotext/index.html
✔ n-tv	2022-01-28	json	https://www.n-tv.de/mediathek/teletext/
✔ SR	2022-01-28	html	https://www.saartext.de/
✔ WDR	2022-01-28	html	https://www1.wdr.de/wdrtext/index.html
✔ ZDF	2022-01-27	html	https://teletext.zdf.de/teletext/zdf/
✔ ZDFinfo	2022-01-27	html	https://teletext.zdf.de/teletext/zdfinfo/
✔ ZDFneo	2022-01-27	html	https://teletext.zdf.de/teletext/zdfneo/

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

• 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 🤣

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