Get Your Local TV Listings From The Bash Command Line | Linux Today

Get Your Local TV Listings From The Bash Command Line

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 28, 2008

[ Thanks to Mike
Golvach
for this link. ]

“This script gets its content from TV Listings At
Zap2It.com and accepts a maximum of two arguments. The US Zip Code
is a required argument (we haven’t checked to see if this works for
overseas, but we highly doubt it, at this point) and you can also
pass the script a “nohd” argument so that you only get standard TV
listings returned. The default action, for this script, is to
return all local television results (including HD Channels) for the
current time period (Once we crack the dynamic object code, we’ll
definitely post an updated version of this script that will allow
you to pick different “begin times” and also increase the time
period your output can include).”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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