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TV_GRAB_ZA(1p)						User Contributed Perl Documentation					    TV_GRAB_ZA(1p)

NAME
tv_grab_za - Grab TV listings for South Africa. SYNOPSIS
tv_grab_za --help tv_grab_za [--config-file FILE] --configure [--gui OPTION] tv_grab_za [--config-file FILE] [--output FILE] [--days N] [--quiet] [--retries N] DESCRIPTION
Output TV listings for DSTV channels available in South Africa. The data comes from www.dstv.com. The grabber relies on parsing HTML so it might stop working at any time. First run tv_grab_za --configure to choose, which channels you want to download. Then running tv_grab_za with no arguments will output listings in XML format to standard output. --configure Prompt for which channels, and write the configuration file. --config-file FILE Set the name of the configuration file, the default is ~/.xmltv/tv_grab_za.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 XMLTV::ProgressBar. --output FILE write to FILE rather than standard output. --days N grab N days. Can be 1, 7, 14 or 30. Default is 14 --quiet suppress the progress messages normally written to standard error. --retries number of retries before failing channel download. --help print a help message and exit. SEE ALSO
xmltv(5). AUTHORS Chris Picton <;cpicton@users.sf.net> Neil Garratt <ngarratt@users.sf.net> Based on tv_grab_fi by Matti Airas. Latest version always available at http://xmltv.cvs.sourceforge.net/xmltv/xmltv/grab/za/ BUGS
Does not automatically update itself, when DSTV changes their site perl v5.14.2 2011-05-12 TV_GRAB_ZA(1p)

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TV_GRAB_HR(1p)						User Contributed Perl Documentation					    TV_GRAB_HR(1p)

NAME
tv_grab_hr - Grab TV listings for Croatia. SYNOPSIS
tv_grab_hr --help tv_grab_hr --configure [--config-file FILE] [--gui OPTION] tv_grab_hr [--config-file FILE] [--days N] [--offset N] [--output FILE] [--quiet] [--debug] tv_grab_hr --list-channels [--config-file FILE] [--output FILE] [--quiet] [--debug] DESCRIPTION
Output TV and listings in XMLTV format for many stations available in Croatia. First you must run tv_grab_hr --configure to choose which stations you want to receive. Then running tv_grab_hr 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_hr.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://www.gonix.net/ 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 v5.14.2 2012-06-30 TV_GRAB_HR(1p)
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