TVGuide

CLI TV guide listing tool

Requirements

• Python (v2/3?)
• Python BeautifulSoup

Implementation

• TV guide currently grabbed from tvprograma.lt.
• Settings file format:

[DEFAULT]
BASE_DIR=
STORAGE_DIR=storage/
ARCHIVE_DIR=archive/
CACHE_DIR=cache/
LOG_DIR=logs/
LOG_LEVEL=debug
LOG_DECAY=7

• Logging to file/stdout not implemeted YET.

Directories

• storage/ -- repository dir for parsed tv shows
• archive/ -- archived failed HTML parse attempts
• cache/ -- HTTP get buffer, HTML temporary storage
• logs/ -- logs should go here

Usage

usage: guide.py [-h] [-c | -g] [-s SHOW] [-d DATE] [--date-from DATE_FROM]
                [--date-to DATE_TO] [-t TIME] [--time-from TIME_FROM]
                [--time-to TIME_TO]
                [CHANNEL|CATEGORY [CHANNEL|CATEGORY ...]]

TV Guide harvest tool

optional arguments:
  -h, --help      show this help message and exit
  -c, --channels  List available TV guide channels
  -g, --groups    List available TV guide channel categories

Scenarios

Action	Command	Notes
List all available channel names	./guide.py -c
List all possible channel categories	./guide.py -g
Show what's on TV now on all available channels	./guide.py	WARNING: This cation needs to request for each channel. This could make admins unhappy
Show current day TV guide for one channel	./guide.py
Show current day TV guide for few channels	./guide.py
Show current day TV guide for channels category	./guide.py
Show some channel TV guide for yesteday	./guide.py -d d-1
Show some channel TV guide after one week	./guide.py -d w+1
Show some channel TV guide for precise day	./guide.py -d 2016.01.01
Show some channel show for precise time	./guide.py -t 09:00
Show some channel show for previous hour and half	./guide.py -t h-1,m-1
Show only shows on some category containting some string pattern	./guide.py -s