tv_grab_eu_egon (1)
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NAME
tv_grab_eu_egon - Grab TV listings for German speaking area.
SYNOPSIS
tv_grab_eu_egon --help
tv_grab_eu_egon --configure [--config-file
FILE
] [--gui
OPTION
]
tv_grab_eu_egon [--config-file
FILE
]
[--days N] [--offset N]
[--output
FILE
] [--quiet] [--debug]
tv_grab_eu_egon --list-channels [--config-file
FILE
]
[--output
FILE
] [--quiet] [--debug]
DESCRIPTION
Output
TV
and listings in
XMLTV
format for many stations
available in German speaking area.
First you must run tv_grab_eu_egon --configure to choose which stations
you want to receive.
Then running tv_grab_eu_egon with no arguments will get a listings for
the stations you chose for five days including today.
OPTIONS
--configure Prompt for which stations to download and write the
configuration file.
--config-file
FILE
Set the name of the configuration file, the
default is
~/.xmltv/tv_grab_eu_egon.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 Term::ProgressBar.
--output
FILE
When grabbing, write output to
FILE
rather than
standard output.
--days N When grabbing, grab N days rather than 5.
--offset N Start grabbing at today + N days. N may be negative.
--quiet Suppress the progress-bar normally shown on standard error.
--debug Provide more information on progress to stderr to help in
debugging.
--list-channels Output a list of all channels that data is available
for. The list is in xmltv-format.
--version Show the version of the grabber.
--help Print a help message and exit.
ERROR HANDLING
If the grabber fails to download data for some channel on a specific day,
it will print an errormessage to
STDERR
and then continue with the other
channels and days. The grabber will exit with a status code of 1 to indicate
that the data is incomplete.
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
The environment variable
HOME
can be set to change where configuration
files are stored. All configuration is stored in
$HOME/.xmltv/. On Windows,
it might be necessary to set
HOME
to a path without spaces in it.
SUPPORTED CHANNELS
For information on supported channels, see
xmltv.spaetfruehstuecken.org/xmltv
AUTHOR
Mattias Holmlund, mattias -at- holmlund -dot- se. This documentation
and parts of the code copied from tv_grab_uk by
Ed Avis, ed -at- membled -dot- com.
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