This is a python script to download the official EPG data from the tv7 backend and export it as XMLTV. The backend API was reverse-engineered from the official Android TV app - for more information check out the the writeup on personal website: February 6, 2020: Extracting EPG data from the TV7 IPTV service.
It's designed to include all data available (including picons and channel numbers), and includes caching and rate-limiting to avoid excessive polling the backend no matter how often it is run, making it easy to setup as a scheduled job. It can directly pipe data into the xmltv grabber of Tvheadend via Unix domain sockets.
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For a dockerized deployment (recommended), see docker-compose.yml for a sample.
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To run it directly, install the python requirements (
pip3 install -r requirements.txt) and thenpython3 tv7-epg-parser.py. -
The script is quiet and the only output you get is the xmltv, this should make it easy to pipe the data for further processing as part of a cron job.
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The script supports only one parameter:
-d/--debugenables debug output.