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TV_EXTRACTINFO_EN(1)  User Contributed Perl Documentation TV_EXTRACTINFO_EN(1)


NAME

       tv_extractinfo_en - read English-language listings and extract info
       from programme descriptions.


SYNOPSIS

       tv_extractinfo_en [--help] [--output FILE] [FILE...]


DESCRIPTION

       Read XMLTV data and attempt to extract information from English-
       language programme descriptions, putting it into machine-readable form.
       For example the human-readable text '(repeat)' in a programme
       description might be replaced by the XML element <previously-shown>.

       --output FILE write to FILE rather than standard output

       This tool also attempts to split multipart programmes into their
       constituents, by looking for a description that seems to contain lots
       of times and titles.  But this depends on the description following one
       particular style and is useful only for some listings sources
       (Ananova).

       If some text is marked with the 'lang' attribute as being some language
       other than English ('en'), it is ignored.


SEE ALSO

       xmltv(5).


AUTHOR

       Ed Avis, ed@membled.com


BUGS

       Trying to parse human-readable text is always error-prone, more so with
       the simple regexp-based approach used here.  But because TV listing
       descriptions usually conform to one of a few set styles,
       tv_extractinfo_en does reasonably well.  It is fairly conservative,
       trying to avoid false positives (extracting 'information' which isn't
       really there) even though this means some false negatives (failing to
       extract information and leaving it in the human-readable text).

       However, the leftover bits of text after extracting information may not
       form a meaningful English sentence, or the punctuation may be wrong.

       On the two listings sources currently supported by the XMLTV package,
       this program does a reasonably good job.  But it has not been tested
       with every source of anglophone TV listings.

perl v5.20.2                      2015-09-15              TV_EXTRACTINFO_EN(1)

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