tv_grab_se(1p)

tv_grab_se1p

Grab tv listings for sweden.

Usage

tv_grab_se --help

tv_grab_se [--config-file FILE] --configure [--gui OPTION]

tv_grab_se [--config-file FILE] [--output FILE] [--days N] [--offset N] [--quiet] [--debug] [--channel xmltvid,xmltvid, ...]

Overview

Output TV and listings in XMLTV format for many stations available in Sweden. The data comes from the website of each respective TV-station.

First you must run tv_grab_se --configure to choose which stations you want to receive.

Then running tv_grab_se with no arguments will get a listings for the stations you chose for five days including today.

--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_se.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.

--channel xmltvid Disregard configuration file and only grab data for
the specified channel(s). The parameter is a
commaseparated list of xmltv channel-ids.

--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.

Supported channels

tv_grab_se can currently fetch data for the following channels:

  SVT1, SVT2, Barnkanalen, SVT24,
  TV4, TV4+.
  TV3, TV8, ZTV
  Kanal 5
  VIASAT SPORT 1/2/3
  EXPLORER, ACTION/NATURE
  TV1000, CINEMA
  EuroSport
  MTV Nordic
  YLE TV Finland

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.

Bugs

The grabber for Viasat (TV3, TV8 and ZTV) does not fetch any desriptions for the programmes, since it would then have to fetch one html-page per programme. It does however store a url for each programme where the description can be found. It also sometimes cannot find the stop-time for the last show of the day.

The grabbers for Eurosport, Yle and Kanal 5 skips the last programme for each day since the input doesn't contain any end-time that programme.

The grabber for MTV just assumes that the last show of the day ends at midnight.

Non-swedish channels temporarily disabled. I will gladly accept a patch that verifies that all these channels actually works and restore them.

                 #
                 # Danish channels
                 #
                 '3plus.dk' =>
                 [ "3+ Denmark", \&get_data_viasat,
                   "www.3plus.dk", "dk" ],
                 'sport1.viasat.dk' =>
                 [ "Viasat Sport 1 Denmark", \&get_data_viasat,
                   "www.sport.viasat.dk", "dk" ],
                 'sport2.viasat.dk' =>
                 [ "Viasat Sport 2 Denmark", \&get_data_viasat,
                   "www.sport.viasat.dk", "dk", 76 ],
                 'sport3.viasat.dk' =>
                 [ "Viasat Sport 3 Denmark", \&get_data_viasat,
                   "www.sport.viasat.dk", "dk", 77 ],
                 'action.viasat.dk' =>
                 [ "Viasat Nature Action Denmark", \&get_data_viasat,
                   "www.action.viasat.dk", "dk" ],
                 'explorer.viasat.dk' =>
                 [ "Viasat Explorer Denmark", \&get_data_viasat,
                   "explorer.viasat.dk", "dk" ],
                 'tv1000.viasat.dk' =>
                 [ "TV 1000 Denmark", \&get_data_viasat_tv1000,
                   "www.tv1000.dk", "dk", 1, 0],
                 'plus-1.tv1000.viasat.dk' =>
                 [ "TV 1000 Denmark (delayed one hour)", \
                   &get_data_viasat_tv1000,
                   "www.tv1000.dk", "dk", 1, 1],
                 'plus-2.tv1000.viasat.dk' =>
                 [ "TV 1000 Denmark (delayed two hours)", 
                   \&get_data_viasat_tv1000,
                   "www.tv1000.dk", "dk", 1, 2],
                 'cinema.viasat.dk' =>
                 [ "Viasat Cinema Denmark", \&get_data_viasat_tv1000,
                   "www.tv1000.dk", "dk", 3, 0],
                 'plus-1.cinema.viasat.dk' =>
                 [ "Viasat Cinema Denmark (delayed one hour)", 
                   \&get_data_viasat_tv1000,
                   "www.tv1000.dk", "dk", 3, 1],
                 'plus-2.cinema.viasat.dk' =>
                 [ "Viasat Cinema Denmark (delayed two hours)", 
                   \&get_data_viasat_tv1000,
                   "www.tv1000.dk", "dk", 3, 2],
                 'tv3.dk' =>
                 [ "TV 3 Denmark", \&get_data_viasat,
                   "www.tv3.dk", "dk" ],
                 #
                 # Norwegian channels
                 #
                 'tv3.no' =>
                 [ "TV 3 Norge", \&get_data_viasat,
                   "www.tv3.no", "no" ],
                 'ztv.no' =>
                 [ "ZTV Norge", \&get_data_viasat,
                   "www.ztv.no", "no" ],
                 'sport1.viasat.no' =>
                 [ "Viasat Sport 1 Norway", \&get_data_viasat,
                   "www.sport.viasat.no", "no" ],
                 'sport2.viasat.no' =>
                 [ "Viasat Sport 2 Norway", \&get_data_viasat,
                   "www.sport.viasat.no", "no", "&override_section=76" ],
                 'sport3.viasat.no' =>
                 [ "Viasat Sport 3 Norway", \&get_data_viasat,
                   "www.sport.viasat.no", "no", "&override_section=77" ],
                 'action.viasat.no' =>
                 [ "Viasat Nature Action Norway", \&get_data_viasat,
                   "www.action.viasat.no", "no" ],
                 'explorer.viasat.no' =>
                 [ "Viasat Explorer Norway", \&get_data_viasat,
                   "explorer.viasat.no", "no" ],
                 'tv1000.viasat.no' =>
                 [ "TV 1000 Norway", \&get_data_viasat_tv1000,
                   "www.tv1000.no", "no", 1, 0],
                 'plus-1.tv1000.viasat.no' =>
                 [ "TV 1000 Norway (delayed one hour)", 
                   \&get_data_viasat_tv1000,
                   "www.tv1000.no", "no", 1, 1],
                 'plus-2.tv1000.viasat.no' =>
                 [ "TV 1000 Norway (delayed two hours)", 
                   \&get_data_viasat_tv1000,
                   "www.tv1000.no", "no", 1, 2],
                 'cinema.viasat.no' =>
                 [ "Viasat Cinema Norway", \&get_data_viasat_tv1000,
                   "www.tv1000.no", "no", 3, 0],
                 'plus-1.cinema.viasat.no' =>
                 [ "Viasat Cinema Norway (delayed one hour)", 
                   \&get_data_viasat_tv1000,
                   "www.tv1000.no", "no", 3, 1],
                 'plus-2.cinema.viasat.no' =>
                 [ "Viasat Cinema Norway (delayed two hours)", 
                   \&get_data_viasat_tv1000,
                   "www.tv1000.no", "no", 3, 2],
                #
                # Finnish channels
                #
                 'tv1000.viasat.fi' =>
                 [ "TV 1000 Finland", \&get_data_viasat_tv1000,
                   "www.tv1000.fi", "fi", 1, 0],
                 'plus-1.tv1000.viasat.fi' =>
                 [ "TV 1000 Finland (delayed one hour)", 
                   \&get_data_viasat_tv1000,
                   "www.tv1000.fi", "fi", 1, 1],
                 'plus-2.tv1000.viasat.fi' =>
                 [ "TV 1000 Finland (delayed two hours)", 
                   \&get_data_viasat_tv1000,
                   "www.tv1000.fi", "fi", 1, 2],
                 'cinema.viasat.fi' =>
                 [ "Viasat Cinema Finland", \&get_data_viasat_tv1000,
                   "www.tv1000.fi", "fi", 3, 0],
                 'plus-1.cinema.viasat.fi' =>
                 [ "Viasat Cinema Finland (delayed one hour)", 
                   \&get_data_viasat_tv1000,
                   "www.tv1000.fi", "fi", 3, 1],
                 'plus-2.cinema.viasat.fi' =>
                 [ "Viasat Cinema Finland (delayd two hours)", 
                   \&get_data_viasat_tv1000,
                   "www.tv1000.fi", "fi", 3, 2],
                 );

From xmltv-util 0.5.39-2 in Debian 3.1 (Sarge). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.