NAME

tv_grab_jp - Grab TV listings for Japan.

SYNOPSIS

tv_grab_jp --help

tv_grab_jp [--config-file FILE] --configure

tv_grab_jp [--config-file FILE] [--output FILE] [--days N] [--offset N] [--enable-readstr] [--no-category-code] [--quiet]

tv_grab_jp --list-channels

DESCRIPTION

Output TV listings for several channels available in Japan. The grabber relies on parsing HTML so it might stop working at any time.

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

tv_grab_jp always grab 7 days of listings.

--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_jp.conf. This is the file written by --configure and read when grabbing.

--output FILE write to FILE rather than standard output.

--days N grab N days. The default and the maximum is 7.

--offset N start N days in the future. The default is to start from today.

--enable-readstr add Hiragana(read strings) for program title.

--no-category-code suppress category code. English translated category names will be added to the listings without this option.

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

--list-channels write output giving <channel> elements for every channel available , but no programmes.

SEE ALSO

xmltv(5).

AUTHOR

Takeru Komoriya<komoriya@paken.org> Based on tv_grab_fi by Matti Airas and tv_grab_sn by Stefan G:orling.

BUGS

The data source may not suit recommended XMLTV DTD format.