TV_GRAB_AR(1p)

💖 TV_GRAB_AR 💖

okay bestie, so this is the TV_GRAB_AR(1p) page — it lives in the User Contributed Perl Documentation section, and it's literally your girl for pulling TV listings out of Argentina. pull up a chair, we're doing this 🌸

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✨ NAME ✨

tv_grab_ar — grab TV listings for Argentina. that's it, that's the whole vibe 🎀

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

tv_grab_ar --help

tv_grab_ar [--config-file FILE] --configure [--gui OPTION]

tv_grab_ar [--config-file FILE] [--output FILE] [--days N]
           [--offset N] [--zone N] [--quiet]

tv_grab_ar --list-channels

tv_grab_ar --capabilities

tv_grab_ar --version

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🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

So like. It outputs TV listings for several channels available in Argentina. And now — as of this version — it also supports terrestrial analog TV listings, which is genuinely the most common TV viewed in Argentina. main character energy for real 👑

The listings come from http://www.buscadorcablevision.com.ar/. heads up though: the grabber relies on parsing HTML, so it might just… stop working at any time. no cap. HTML changes, grabber cries 😭

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

• --configure — prompts you for which channels, and writes the configuration file. it's giving "let's set you up, bestie".
• --config-file FILE — set the name of the configuration file. the default is ~/.xmltv/tv_grab_ar.conf. this is the file written by --configure and read when grabbing. it's the whole personality of your setup fr fr 🫶
• --gui OPTION — use this option to enable a graphical interface. OPTION may be 'Tk', or left blank for the best available choice. additional allowed values of OPTION are 'Term' for normal terminal output (which is the default) and 'TermNoProgressBar' to disable the use of XMLTV::ProgressBar. choose your fighter ✨
• --output FILE — write to FILE rather than standard output. redirect the drama, keep the terminal clean 🎀
• --days N — grab N days. the default is 3.
• --offset N — start N days in the future. the default is to start from today. living in the moment, iconic.
• --zone N — specify a different location ID than that specified in the configuration file. plot twist 🌍
• --quiet — suppress the progress messages normally written to standard error. shhh, we're being mysterious 🤫
• --capabilities — show which capabilities the grabber supports. for more information, see <http://wiki.xmltv.org/index.php/XmltvCapabilities>. receipts, we love to see them 📋
• --version — show the version of the grabber.
• --help — print a help message and exit. the classic. the comfort option 💖

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🌸 SEE ALSO 🌸

xmltv(5).

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

The original author was Christian A. Rodriguez, car at cespi dot unlp dot edu dot ar, basing tv_grab_ar on tv_grab_es by Ranin Roca. giving credit where credit is due, periodt 💜

Significant updates and patches have been provided by:

• Mariano S. Cosentino, 4xmltv at marianok dot com dot ar
• Karl Dietz, dekarl at spaetfruehstuecken dot org
• Geoff Westcott, honir999 at gmail dot com
• Nick Morrott, knowledgejunkie at gmail dot com

the group chat came THROUGH for this one 🫶✨

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💀 BUGS 💀

This grabber extracts all information from the cablevision website. Any changes to the website may cause this grabber to stop working. it's fragile, bestie. handle with care 🥺

Retrieving the description information adds a considerable amount of time to the run and makes the file quite large. so like… that's a real tradeoff, not me being dramatic for once 🙈

It might be a good idea to cache program descriptions so there is no need to refetch them. (that's the manpage's idea, not mine — but honestly? valid.)

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and that's the whole page, babe! this one's perl v5.34.0, dated 2022-02-19, from the TV_GRAB_AR(1p) era of the manual. go configure your channels and live your best XML life 🦋💅💖