# 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
```rust
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'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.
- [x] 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