tv_grab_ar (1p)

tv_grab_ar --help

tv_grab_ar [--config-file \s-1FILE\s0] --configure [--gui \s-1OPTION\s0]

tv_grab_ar [--config-file \s-1FILE\s0] [--output \s-1FILE\s0] [--days N]

           [--offset N] [--quiet] [--GetDetails]

tv_grab_ar --list-channels

tv_grab_ar --capabilities

tv_grab_ar --version

Output \s-1TV\s0 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 \s-1HTML\s0 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 \s-1XML\s0 format to standard output.

--configure Prompt for which channels, and write the configuration file.

--config-file \s-1FILE\s0 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 \s-1OPTION\s0 Use this option to enable a graphical interface to be used. \s-1OPTION\s0 may be 'Tk', or left blank for the best available choice. Additional allowed values of \s-1OPTION\s0 are 'Term' for normal terminal output (default) and 'TermNoProgressBar' to disable the use of XMLTV::ProgressBar.

--output \s-1FILE\s0 Write to \s-1FILE\s0 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.

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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.