TV GUIDE Generator

Python script used to generate tv guide in many formats

Requirement

• Python 2.7
• pip ans setuptools
• lxml

Installation

The installation steps assume that you have the following things installed:

• Python 2.7
• pip and setuptools Python packages. Nowadays pip requires and installs setuptools if not installed. Python 2.7.9 and later include pip by default, so you may have it already.
• lxml. Most Linux distributions ships prepackaged versions of lxml. Otherwise refer to http://lxml.de/installation.html

You can install Tvguidegen using pip (which is the canonical way to install Python packages). To install using pip run:

pip install tvguidegen

Supported Formats

• XMLTV format. see DTD.

Typical usage

• With JSON file source:

  ~# tvgg -c /data/tvguide.json -o <outputfile> --m3u-channels=/data/mym3uchannels.json

• With mongodb collection source:

  ~# tvgg -c channels_collection -o <outputfile> --m3u-channels=http://exaple.com/list.m3u --mongodb-uri=localhost --mongodb-db=tvguide --limit=50

Command Line Arguments

-c, --channels    Filename path with Channels and TV programing content in JSON format
                  or a Mongodb collection name.

-o, --output      Output filename. If not set, Tv guide will be output to STDOUT.

--m3u-channels    Filename path or url with your channels names (Eg. From m3u playlist) in M3U format (Optionnal)
                  This useful to match your channels with tv guide source data

--mongodb-uri     Mongodb HOST URI.(Optionnal)
                  If is set,--channels and --m3u-channels are selected from Mongodb\s collections
                  Default: 127.0.0.1

--mongodb-db      Mongodb DATABASE Name. (Optionnal)
                  Default: tvguide

-l, --limit       Limit channels to generate. (Optionnal)

--m3u-only        Export only matched channels.

-v                Verbose script execution. (Optionnal)

LICENCE

The MIT License (MIT)