NAME¶
tv_grab_ar - Grab TV listings for Argentina.
SYNOPSIS¶
tv_grab_ar --help
tv_grab_ar [--config-file FILE] --configure [--gui OPTION]
tv_grab_ar [--config-file FILE] [--output FILE] [--days N]
[--offset N] [--quiet] [--GetDetails]
tv_grab_ar --list-channels
tv_grab_ar --capabilities
tv_grab_ar --version
DESCRIPTION¶
Output TV listings for several channels available in Argentina. Now supports the
terrestrial analog tv listings, which is the most common tv viewed in
Argentina. The tv listings comes from
http://www.buscadorcablevision.com.ar/
The grabber relies on parsing HTML so it might stop working at any time.
First run
tv_grab_ar --configure to choose, which channels you want to
download. Then running
tv_grab_ar with no arguments will output
listings in XML format to standard output.
--configure Prompt for which channels, and write the configuration file.
--config-file FILE Set the name of the configuration file, the default is
~/.xmltv/tv_grab_ar.conf. This is the file written by
--configure and read when grabbing.
--gui OPTION Use this option to enable a graphical interface to be used.
OPTION may be 'Tk', or left blank for the best available choice. Additional
allowed values of OPTION are 'Term' for normal terminal output (default) and
'TermNoProgressBar' to disable the use of XMLTV::ProgressBar.
--output FILE Write to FILE rather than standard output.
--days N Grab N days. The default is 3.
--offset N Start N days in the future. The default is to start from
today.
--quiet Suppress the progress messages normally written to standard
error.
--capabilities Show which capabilities the grabber supports. For more
information, see <
http://wiki.xmltv.org/index.php/XmltvCapabilities>
--version Show the version of the grabber.
--help Print a help message and exit.
SEE ALSO¶
xmltv(5).
AUTHOR 1.10 Mariano S. Cosentino, Mok@marianok.com.ar 1.9 Mariano S. Cosentino, Mok@marianok.com.ar 1.8 rmeden 1.7 Mariano S. Cosentino, Mok@marianok.com.ar 1.6 Mariano S. Cosentino, Mok@marianok.com.ar 1.5 Christian A. Rodriguez, car@cespi.unlp.edu.ar, based on tv_grab_es, from Ramon Roca.¶
BUGS¶
This grabber extracts all information from cablevision website. Any change in
this web page may cause this grabber to stop working. Retrieving the
description information adds a considerable amount of time to the run and
makes the file quite large. migth be a good idea to add a cache file the keeps
the program description so there is no need to fetch it.