TV_EXTRACTINFO_EN(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation TV_EXTRACTINFO_EN(1)NAMEtv_extractinfo_en - read English-language listings and extract info
from programme descriptions.
SYNOPSIStv_extractinfo_en [--help] [--output FILE] [FILE...]
DESCRIPTION
Read XMLTV data and attempt to extract information from English-
language programme descriptions, putting it into machine-readable form.
For example the human-readable text '(repeat)' in a programme
description might be replaced by the XML element <previously-shown>.
--output FILE write to FILE rather than standard output
This tool also attempts to split multipart programmes into their
constituents, by looking for a description that seems to contain lots
of times and titles. But this depends on the description following one
particular style and is useful only for some listings sources
(Ananova).
If some text is marked with the 'lang' attribute as being some language
other than English ('en'), it is ignored.
SEE ALSOxmltv(5).
AUTHOR
Ed Avis, ed@membled.com
BUGS
Trying to parse human-readable text is always error-prone, more so with
the simple regexp-based approach used here. But because TV listing
descriptions usually conform to one of a few set styles,
tv_extractinfo_en does reasonably well. It is fairly conservative,
trying to avoid false positives (extracting 'information' which isn't
really there) even though this means some false negatives (failing to
extract information and leaving it in the human-readable text).
However, the leftover bits of text after extracting information may not
form a meaningful English sentence, or the punctuation may be wrong.
On the two listings sources currently supported by the XMLTV package,
this program does a reasonably good job. But it has not been tested
with every source of anglophone TV listings.
perl v5.20.2 2015-09-15 TV_EXTRACTINFO_EN(1)
