tv_grab_ch - Grab TV listings for Switzerland (from www.fernsehen.ch webpage).

tv_grab_ch --help

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

tv_grab_ch [--config-file FILE] [--output FILE] [--quiet] [--days N] [--offset N]

tv_grab_ch --list-channels

Output TV listings for several channels available in Switzerland and (partly) central Europe. The data comes from www.fernsehen.ch. The grabber relies on parsing HTML so it might stop working at any time.

First run tv_grab_ch --configure to choose, which channels you want to download. Then running tv_grab_ch with no arguments will output listings in XML format to standard output.

--configure Ask for each available channel whether to download and write the configuration file.

--config-file FILE Set the name of the configuration file, the default is ~/.xmltv/tv_grab_ch.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 write to FILE rather than standard output.

--days N grab N days. The default is fourteen.

--offset N start N days in the future. The default is to start from now on (= zero).

--quiet suppress the progress messages normally written to standard error.

--list-channels write output giving <channel> elements for every channel available (ignoring the config file), but no programmes.

--help print a help message and exit.

Some channels, like for example SAT.1 and RTL-2, sometimes broadcast different programmes in different regions, i.e. the programmes broadcast in Switzerland differ from the programmes shown in Germany. Unfortunately fernsehen.ch tends to supply both programmes in one channel listing, making it hard for the grabber to decide which programme to write out. By default it tends to write the first, however you can overwrite this in the configuration file. Simply add a line telling last plus the channel id, e.g. last RT2 for RTL-2.

xmltv(5).

Stefan Siegl <stesie@brokenpipe.de>. Inspired by tv_grab_fi by Matti Airas.

If you happen to find a bug, you're requested to send a mail to me at stesie@brokenpipe.de or to one of the XMLTV mailing lists, see webpages at http://sourceforge.net/projects/xmltv/.