xmltv

XMLTV for electronic program guide (EPG) parser and generator using serde.

Features

• Flatten some elements like <new/> to be a boolean in order to avoid boilerplate
• CLI available to perform some operations

Usage

Library

use std::str::FromStr;

use quick_xml::de::from_str;
use quick_xml::se::to_string_with_root;
use xmltv::*;

fn main() {
    let xml = "<tv>\
<programme channel=\"1\" start=\"2021-10-09 12:00:00 +0200\" stop=\"2021-10-09 13:00:00 +0200\">\
<title>Les feux de l&apos;amour é</title>\
</programme>\
<programme channel=\"2\" start=\"2021-10-09 12:20:00 +0200\" stop=\"2021-10-09 12:35:00 +0200\">\
<title lang=\"fr-FR\">Le journal</title>\
</programme>\
<programme channel=\"3\" start=\"2021-10-09 13:00:00 +0200\" stop=\"2021-10-09 13:40:00 +0200\">\
<title>Le journal</title>\
</programme>\
</tv>";

    // deserialize into the root object (Tv)
    let item: Tv = from_str(xml).unwrap();

    // serialize into string
    let _out = to_string_with_root("tv", &tv).unwrap();
}

To serialize big files, you can look into tests/from_files.rs::test_programmes_from_files. It reads programmes one by one without loading everything in RAM.

Command line interface (CLI)

Install it with cargo install xmltv or with the binaries.

• -c <CHANNEL LIST> or --channels=<CHANNEL LIST>: channels you want to keep, ie: -c tf1,m6,Arte. You can also check them with the TUI using -c ?
• --cleanse <ITEM LIST>: items you want to remove form the XMLTV file. I made this option because, in XMLTV file there are a lot of data and we don't need all of them and we may want to reduce the size of the file. Available items are:
  • credits: remove all credits. If you want to remove some of them, use:
    • directors
    • actors
    • writers
    • adapters
    • producers
    • composers
    • editors
    • presenters
    • commentators
    • guests
  • categories
  • new
  • countries
  • keywords
  • sub-titles
  • languages
  • videos
  • audios
  • subtitles
  • last-chances
  • descriptions
  • dates
  • origin-languages
  • length
  • premieres
  • previously-showns
  • ratings
  • star-ratings
  • reviews
  • images
  • episode-nums
  • icons
  • urls
• -d NUMBER or --days NUMBER: number of days in the EPG to keep
• -o <FILE> or --output <FILE>: new XMLTV file you want to generate otherwise it is printed in the console.

Roadmap

• CLI
  • limit to N days -d <number>. -d 3 means from today and the nex 3 days
  • clean: remove some unwanted elements to make it lighter. You can remove description --no-description, all credits --no-credits or partial one (--no-directors, --no-actors, --no-guests, ...), --no-categories, --no-keywords, --no-countries, ... You can also remove unwanted time slot(s) (like between 0:00-6:00 and/or 23:30-23:59) or unwanted day(s) --days 1,2,3,5,6,7 (here no thursday, first day is monday).
  • load external filter (-l <FILE> or --load <FILE>) from a configuration file to avoid a command with too many arguments or just to follow favorite programmes.
  • check channels to filter
  • search in the title (and maybe other like keywords, description, credits)
  • show EPG
  • configure favorites and filters?

Ressources

XMLTV DTD is here: https://github.com/XMLTV/xmltv/blob/master/xmltv.dtd