TVHeadend tv_grab_url - with automatic setup script for Linux Newbies.

tv_grab_url-setup.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# coding=utf-8
import os 
import sys,stat 
import urllib2

installto = "/usr/bin/tv_grab_url"

def replace_line(file_name, line_num, text):
  #Stolen from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4719438/editing-specific-line-in-text-file-in-python
    lines = open(file_name, 'r').readlines()
    lines[line_num] = text
    out = open(file_name, 'w')
    out.writelines(lines)
    out.close()

if not os.geteuid() == 0:
    sys.exit('Script must be run as root')

content = urllib2.urlopen('https://gist.github.com/saihtaM/5242283/raw/tv_grab_url.py').read()
save = open(installto, "wb")
save.write(content)
save.close()
st = os.stat(installto)
os.chmod(installto, 0o777) #st.st_mode | stat.S_IEXEC
url = raw_input('Hi, and welcome to this super simple install script!\nThanks for choosing my script.\n\nThe script has been installed here '+installto+'\n\nLets configure it! Just fill in your XMLTV url below. Don\'t worry about whitespaces in front or behind the url. I\'ll strip them away :)\n\nPlease enter your XMLTV url: ')
replace_line(installto, 6, 'url = "'+url.strip()+'"\n')
os.system("/etc/init.d/tvheadend restart")

print "\n\nNow, go to your TVHeadend webgui. Configuration -> XMLTV.\nSelect \"tv_grab_url is a simple python version of the tv_gra...\", and check the checkbox Enable grabbing. Press Save Configuration and that's it!"
print "\nTo link your channels to the XMLTV, go to Configuration -> Channels. Change the dropbox 'XMLTV source' of each channel to the correct one. Press save."

tv_grab_url-setup_info.txt

Please note, the following requires wget and python, you can get those with: apt-get install wget python

Do it automaticly (Ubuntu and systems with sudo):
wget https://gist.github.com/saihtaM/5242283/raw/tv_grab_url-setup.py -qO temptv_grab_url-setup.py && sudo python temptv_grab_url-setup.py && rm temptv_grab_url-setup.py

Do it automaticly alternative (No sudo? No problem, just make sure you're root.):
wget https://gist.github.com/saihtaM/5242283/raw/tv_grab_url-setup.py -qO temptv_grab_url-setup.py && python temptv_grab_url-setup.py && rm temptv_grab_url-setup.py

Manual install and config:
wget https://gist.github.com/saihtaM/5242283/raw/tv_grab_url.py -qO /usr/bin/tv_grab_url && chmod +x /usr/bin/tv_grab_url && nano +7 /usr/bin/tv_grab_url && /etc/init.d/tvheadend restart

tv_grab_url.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# coding=utf-8

# Copyright Mathias F. Svendsen - okey.dk
#Configuration zone start

url = "http://timefor.tv/xmltv/c81e728d9d4c2f636f067f89cc14862c" #EDIT ME

#Configuration zone end - Do not edit anything below here unless you know what you're doing.
from optparse import OptionParser
import urllib2

parser = OptionParser(version="%prog 1.0b")
parser.add_option("-u", "--url", dest="url", help="Overwrite the hardcoded URL string.", metavar="URL", default=url)
parser.add_option("-d","--description", action="store_true",dest="description",default=False, help="Prints the description of this script")
parser.add_option("-c","--capabilities", dest="capabilities", action="store_true" ,help="Not sure what this is - but saw it in tv_grab_file.", default=False)
(options, args) = parser.parse_args()

if options.description is False and options.capabilities is False:
  print urllib2.urlopen(options.url).read()
elif options.description is True:
  print "tv_grab_url is a simple python version of the tv_grab_file, but instead of using a file, it downloads from an user specified XMLTV link."
elif options.capabilities is True:
	print "baseline"