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EPGuides

EPGuides - Electronic Program Guide - is a useful and straightforward tv program data covering countries across the globe. It's free to use, updated every seven days, and provides simple array access to the downloaded XML structures.

EPG Data

Supports Belgium, France, Germany, and United Kingdom TV Channels at the moment:

Albania, Belgium, France, Germany and United Kingdom (combined epg, but it is large):
- XML Format: https://www.iptvepg.eu/epg
Albania:
- XML Format: https://www.iptvepg.eu/al
Belgium:
- XML Format: https://www.iptvepg.eu/be
France:
- XML Format: https://www.iptvepg.eu/fr
Germany:
- XML Format: https://www.iptvepg.eu/de
United Kingdom:
- XML Format: https://www.iptvepg.eu/uk

JSON Format

Need the EPG data in JSON format? You can parse the XML output asynchronously without the callback hell using xml2js. Don't forget to replace epg with the country code in the URL if you need it for a specific country.

var eyes = require('eyes'),
    http = require('http'),
    async = require('async'),
    xml2js = require('xml2js');

async.waterfall([
    function(callback) {
        http.get('https://www.iptvepg.eu/epg', function(res) {
            var response_data = '';
            res.setEncoding('utf8');
            res.on('data', function(chunk) {
                response_data += chunk;
            });
            res.on('end', function() {
                callback(null, response_data)
            });
            res.on('error', function(err) {
                callback(err);
            });
        });
    },
    function(xml, callback) {
        var parser = new xml2js.Parser();
        parser.parseString(xml, function(err, result) {
            if (err) {
                callback(err);
            } else {
                callback(null, result);
            }
        });
    },
    function(json, callback) {
        // do something useful with the json
        eyes.inspect(json);
        callback();
    }
], function(err, result) {
    if (err) {
        console.log('Got error');
        console.log(err);
    } else {
        console.log('Done.');
    }
});