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TV_GRAB_EU_EPGDATA(1)                      User Contributed Perl Documentation


NAME

       tv_grab_eu_epgdata - Grab TV listings for parts of Europe.


SYNOPSIS

       tv_grab_eu_epgdata --help tv_grab_eu_epgdata tv_grab_eu_epgdata
       --version

       tv_grab_eu_epgdata --capabilities

       tv_grab_eu_epgdata --description

       tv_grab_eu_epgdata [--config-file FILE]
                          [--days N] [--offset N]
                          [--output FILE] [--quiet] [--debug]

       tv_grab_eu_epgdata --configure [--config-file FILE]

       tv_grab_eu_epgdata --configure-api [--stage NAME]
                          [--config-file FILE]
                          [--output FILE]

       tv_grab_eu_epgdata --list-channels [--config-file FILE]
                          [--output FILE] [--quiet] [--debug]

       tv_grab_eu_epgdata --preferredmethod


DESCRIPTION

       Output TV and listings in XMLTV format for many stations available in
       Europe.

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

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

       This is a commercial grabber.  Go to
       http://wiki.xmltv.org/index.php/EU_epgdata to sign up or send an e-mail
       to service@epgdata.com for further information.  It's also possible to
       ask for a test account.


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_epgdata.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.

       --quiet Do not show status messages.

       --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.

       --preferredmethod Shows the preferred method for downloading data
                            (see
       http://wiki.xmltv.org/index.php/XmltvCapabilities) =head1 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 a list of supported channels, see the channel_ids file distributed
       with this grabber.  If additional channels are available, you will
       receive a warning when you run --configure.

       Once I am aware that new channels are available, the channel_ids file
       will be updated and this grabber will automatically fetch an updated
       copy.


COMPATIBILITY

       The channel ids used in this grabber aim to be mostly possible with
       other grabbers, eg tv_grab_de_prisma and some other grabbers for other
       countries.  NOTE: Retaining compatibility was not always possible or
       practicable.  You can get a list of channel ids using --list-channels


AUTHOR

       Michael Haas, laga -at- laga -dot- ath -dot - cx. This documentation is
       copied from tv_grab_se_swedb by Mattias Holmlund, which in turn was
       copied from tv_grab_uk by Ed Avis.  Parts of the code are copied from
       tv_grab_se_swedb and tv_grab_na_dd (in XMLTV 0.5.45) as well as various
       other sources.


BUGS

       There's no proper support for channels with locally different
       schedules. For example, if your EPG package is a German one, you'll get
       the EPG schedule for Germany even if you preferred the Swiss schedule
       which is also available in the data (for some channels at least).

       Timezones are not handled correctly. Currently, you have to enter your
       time zone manually during the configure step. You have to do this every
       time your time zone changes, eg for daylight saving time ("Sommerzeit"
       and "Normalzeit" for my fellow Germans).  I'll try to have this fixed
       for the next XMLTV release.  Please see this thread for further
       discussion and some additional issues:
           http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tv.xmltv.devel/7919 FYI: you can
       modify the time zone directly in the config file which is usually
       located at ~/.xmltv/tv_grab_eu_epgdata.conf or ~/.mythtv/FOO.xmltv
       where FOO is the name of your video source in MythTV.

       If the data source gives us data for one day, they'll also cover a part
       of the following day.  Maybe this should be fixed. Please note: data is
       not overlapping! So if we want to get data for today, we might as well
       grab yesterday because that'll give us EPG till ~5am for today.

       I'm sure this list is not complete. Let me know if you encounter
       additional problems.

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

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