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Legal EPG Scraper for ARD TV Stations to Use With tvheadend External XMLTV Grabber

April 14th, 2019December 23rd, 2019Documentation, Le Potato, Media Center, Project, Raspberry Pi, Software11 Comments

I wrote a Python EPG scraper for the EPG data of the German TV stations broadcast by ARD. It is legal for private use. Here I share the code and my thoughts behind it.

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