fast_tv_grab_nl

Fast TV channel information grabber

fast_tv_grab_nl is a C++ TV channel information grabber.
The functionality is similar to tv_grab_nl_PY (https://code.google.com/p/tvgrabnlpy).

fast_tv_grab_nl grabs TV channel and programme information from two possible providers:

• http://www.tvgids.nl
• http://www.horizon.tv

Information is converted into the XMLTV format.
Programme categories are converted to the categories known by TVHeadend.

How to build:

The current Makefile is created for compilation on a bootstrapped Synology DS1813+ (or any other x86_64 Intel Atom diskstation)

Dependencies:

• boost-dev
• boost-date-time
• boost-filesystem
• boost-program-options
• boost-regex
• boost-serialization
• boost-system
• boost-thread
• openssl-dev
• libcurl-dev

Usage:

Create config file: (edit config file, and remove unwanted channels):

./fast_tv_grab_nl -p <provider> --createconfig

The config file can be found in ~/.xmltv/fast_tv_grab_nl.conf
Grab channel info and feed into TVHeadend:

/fast_tv_grab_nl -p <provider> --quiet | socat - UNIX:/usr/local/tvheadend/var/epggrab/xmltv.sock

J. Dierkse
j.dierkse@madeo.nl