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XMLTV EPG format for your home media PC. Easy to import. Free for home use. Channels from Croatia, BiH, Serbia, Slovenia, Hungary, Austria, Germany and lost of others.
Annoyingly, there is apparently NOT a free provider of USA EPG data... (Unless you consider the OTA EPG signal 'a provider'...) (see UPDATE solution below)
TitanTV.com has a nice, free, grid service, but I do not think they still provide a feed, although they used to....
One pretty good sounding option is.. ZAP2XML
zap2xml is a small and fast command line script for Windows/Linux/OSX/* that connects to a Zap2it.com TV Listings account, downloads the tv listings grid data and converts the .html to XMLTV formatted .xml or XTVD formatted .xml
Cannot vouch for 'zap' personally, but the method/concept is sound, if not their specific implementation...
If you can rock $20 a year, the easy way is.. Schedules Direct, a non-profit organization that provides EPG for Open Source Software.
The cost of membership is currently US$20/year, with a 7 day free trial. A 2 month membership is also available for US$5 for those who do not wish to commit to an entire year.
Also, Here is a good list of scrapers / XMLTV processors.
UPDATE: YAY. I totally hunted down a FREE, and REALLY nice solution..
This is where I found out how to..download XMLTV and this gunky little binary that end you up here....
Now THAT is how it SHOULD be. Amen. Just open up the resulting XML file in EyeTV, or what have you.. and keep that sucker updated via CRON or launchd, etc.
He says you need to put it in a web accessible directory, but I don't see why.... and also, I had to run it the first time like this...
../eyetv/mc2xml -c us -g 10011
with -c us
representing where I be from, the U.S.A... and -g 10011
further geolocating me to my postal zip code for stalking and raping purposes.... don't forget to vote, goodnight everyone!
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/XMLTV has lot of sources but they are country specific. Not sure of a Universal one.
How about MetaBroadcast?
They support XMLTV and there are free APIs to my knowledge..
I know r/https://www.iptv-epg.com offers EPG data for a subscription but lets say you know some good sources for EPG but the data does not match your playlist.
Are there free tools or apps out there that will allow you to map your channels on the playlist to the correct channel on the EPG data.
Hopefully something with a GUI. I believe there is also WebGrab+Plus but it runs on scripts and would probably take so much time to match your channels to the EPG Data that way.