NAME

TV::Anytime - Parse TV-AnyTime bundles of TV and Radio listings

SYNOPSIS

      use TV::Anytime;
      my $tv = TV::Anytime->new("data/20050701/");

      # Find out what services are available
      my @services = $tv->services;
      my @radio_services = $tv->services_radio;
      my @tv_services = $tv->services_television;

DESCRIPTION

The TV::Anytime module parses TV-Anytime bundles. TV-Anytime is a format organised by the TV-Anytime Forum (<http://www.tv-anytime.org/>). These are open standards (see ETSI TS102822) for the rich description of Radio, Television and other types of media. The metadata specification includes a comprehensive genre scheme, methods of linking and grouping programmes, listing credits and lots of other data fields.

This module is concerned with parsing TV-Anytime files that are shipped by the British Broadcasting Corporation from <http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/feeds/tvradio/doc.html>. It is assumed that you have downloaded a .tar.gz from this site and have unpacked it.

METHODS
new()
The new() method is the constructor. It takes the directory into which you have unpacked the TV-Anytime files:

my $tv = TV::Anytime->new("data/20050701/");

services
The services() method returns a list of all the available services as a list of TV::Anytime::Service objects:

my @services = $tv->services;

services_radio
The services_radio() method returns a list of the available radio services as a list of TV::Anytime::Service objects:

my @radio_services = $tv->services_radio;

services_television
The serviices_television() method returns a list of all the available television services as a list of TV::Anytime::Service objects:

my @tv_services = $tv->services_television;

SEE ALSO

TV::Anytime::Service

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to "bug-TV-Anytime@rt.cpan.org", or through the web interface at <http://rt.cpan.org>.

AUTHOR

Leon Brocard "acme@astray.com"

LICENCE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2005, Leon Brocard "acme@astray.com". All rights reserved.

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.