TV_GRAB_IS(1p)

💖 NAME 💖

okay so bestie, let me introduce you to tv_grab_is — it's the little icon that grabs TV listings for Iceland 🇮🇸✨ This page lives in the 1p manual, aka the User Contributed Perl Documentation corner of the universe 🫶

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

like, the vibes, but in code:

tv_grab_is --help

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

tv_grab_is [--config-file FILE] [--output FILE] [--days N]
           [--offset N] [--quiet]

tv_grab_is --capabilities

tv_grab_is --version

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

It outputs TV listings for several channels available in Iceland. that's the whole main character job description fr fr 👑

First things first: run tv_grab_is --configure to pick which channels you actually want to download. Then, once that's done, running tv_grab_is with no arguments will spit out listings in XML format to standard output. slay 💅

• --configure — prompts you for which channels you want, and writes the configuration file. it's giving setup era ✨
• --config-file FILE — sets the name of the configuration file. the default is ~/.xmltv/tv_grab_is.conf. this is the file that --configure writes and that gets read when grabbing. one file, two jobs, multitasking queen 💖
• --gui OPTION — use this to enable a graphical interface. OPTION may be 'Tk', or left blank for the best available choice. other allowed values of OPTION are 'Term' for normal terminal output (that's the default!) and 'TermNoProgressBar' to disable the use of Term::ProgressBar. pick your fighter 🎀
• --output FILE — write to FILE instead of standard output.
• --days N — grab N days. the default is as many as the source carries. let the source decide, honestly, it knows 🦋
• --offset N — start N days in the future. the default is to start from today.
• --quiet — suppresses the progress messages that normally get written to standard error. shhh 🤫
• --capabilities — shows which capabilities the grabber supports. for more info, see <http://wiki.xmltv.org/index.php/XmltvCapabilities> 🔥
• --version — shows the version of the grabber.
• --help — prints a help message and exits. the classic 🫶

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

xmltv(5). =head1 AUTHOR

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Yngvi Þór Sigurjónsson (yngvi@teymi.is). Heavily based on tv_grab_dk by Jesper Skov (jskov@zoftcorp.dk). and tv_grab_dk was originally based on tv_grab_nl by Guido Diepen and Ed Avis (ed@membled.com) plus tv_grab_fi by Matti Airas. a whole family tree of grabbers, we love to see it 🌳💖

Version 1.1, Eggert Thorlacius (eggert@thorlacius.com). Started out by replacing a couple of channels with XML feeds, but ended up by removing the sjonvarp.is code completely. Left in the "xxx.sjonvarp.is" XMLTV IDs for backwards compatibility. not me going in for a tiny lil edit and rewriting the whole thing 😭 iconic behaviour tho

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💀 BUGS 💀

literally nothing listed here bestie. the BUGS section is empty. no cap, zero bugs documented, which is either iconic or suspicious and we're choosing to believe iconic 🎀✨

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! this gem came from perl v5.40.1, dated 2025-04-19 — go forth and grab those Icelandic listings 💜🦋🍓