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Runs in Windows, Linux and OS X.
Can grab from multiple sites, programmable by user trough a siteini file.
As of March 2014 siteini files available for 200 TV-guide sites worldwide.(see the supported sites)
Very fast through incremental grabbing (only changed and new shows grabbed)
Ability to import epg data from (other source) xmltv files and merge that with that of the grabbed data.
Programmable through editing commands that enable changing, filtering, adding, moving, removing (parts) and calculating of the xmltv elements.
Support of combi-channels, channels that show programs from different source channels at specific periods of the day.
Support of time-offset channels, channels that only differ from another one through a timeshift.
Ability to grab from a very wide range of epg structures of the supported html pages. E.g. single-day, multi-day, multi-page single-day, channel-fragmented single-day and many other variants.
Supports grabbing from compressed feeds (gzip and deflate) through build-in decompression.
Can extract xmltv elements from a very wide range of webpage data formats like html, ftp, xml, xmltv, mxf, csv and others.
Very flexible url-builder (that builds the url of the index-page) with support for day-number, weekday-name, weekday-number, date-string, date-number, date-lists and sub-pages.
Support for Http WebRequest methods GET and POST, plus header specifications.
Support for Ftp WebRequest, including access credentials username and password.
Support of grabbing of nearly all (25) xmltv elements.
Support of grabbing in all languages (that can be represented in a standard character set), including the non alphabetic like Chinese, Russian, Greek, Japanese etc.
Can grab from 1, 2 or 3 web pages (index - , detail - and subdetail page)
Automatic DST (daylight saving time) adaptions.
Fair use of site resources through user programmable delays between subsequent channels, index pages and detail pages.
Programmable retry and time-out settings for bad or slow internet connections.
Conforms to the ROBOTS exclusion standard through a screen warning.
Optional MDB postprocessor that automatically grabs additional IMDb data.
Optional REX postprocessor that allows re-allocation and merging of xmltv elements
Data is loaded from the libEPG.config file in json format. Sample usage:
