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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
http://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.
BUGS
perl v5.20.2 2015-09-15 TV_GRAB_EU_EGON(1)