Guide: EPG TVGuide.com for Local Channels

[blake502]

If you (like me) want iptv-org/epg to pull TVGuide.com data for local channels (IE: news channels), this guide should help!

First, we'll need to locate your local "provider" ID for TVGuide.com, as well as any "channel" IDs you want.
I use Brave browser, but it should be pretty similar for any Chromium-based browser.

Begin by navigating to: https://www.tvguide.com/listings/
Select "Provider" (if you already have a provider selected, consider using an "Incognito" window for consistency with the next steps)

Find your local provider, but do not hit "Apply" yet. In my case, I'm using Antenna Broadcast for Flavortown

Press F12 to open your brower's developer console. Use the Network tab.
This "recording" icon indicates that we're recording all network activity

With the Network tab recording, now hit "Apply" to select your provider

You should see a bunch of activity on the Network section of the developer console (mostly a lot of icons). You can pause the recording at this point.
Locate the tvgServiceProviderAddRequestedProxy entry- It should be at the top, before any of the icons loaded. Click it.
In the Payload section, you should see a JSON response. You need to locate the service_provider_id. It should be a 10-digit number, likely starting with 9. That is your provider ID. Copy it somewhere.

Next, locate the web?start=1000000000&durection=120 entry (the "start" will be different).
In the Response tab, you should see JSON blocks for channel and programSchedules. Ignore the programSchedules, and note the sourceId of any channels you want- Use the fullName field to identify channels. Here, I've located the local NBC channel for my city Flavortown, USA.

Note: You can also locate your providerId at the top of this response.

Now, we can add those channels to channels.xml:

<channel site="tvguide.comlocal" site_id="9200000100" lang="en" xmltv_id="NBC.(WOWEE).Flavortown,.USA.us">NBC: USA FLAVORTOWN WOWEE</channel>

Note: The site is a custom site that we will create next. I'm using the name tvguide.comlocal to differentiate it from tvguide.com. The site_id is the channel ID we just located. The xmltv_id should match the tvg-id from your m3u playlist. The name can be any "friendly name" of your choosing.

Now we will create the site. We'll use the original tvguide.com site as a template: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/iptv-org/epg/refs/heads/master/sites/tvguide.com/tvguide.com.config.js (right-click, Save As...)

Open the file with any text editor. I'll be using VS Code. We need to make 3 changes to this file.

On line 5: Change 'site:tvguide.com' to 'site:tvguide.comlocal'
On line 10: Change '9100001138' to the provider ID you located previously
On line 20: Change 'tvguide.com' to 'tvguide.comlocal'

Save the file as tvguide.comlocal.config.js

Finally, we need to provide this new config to the epg program. There are 3 ways you might do this, depending on how you run epg.

If you run epg directly

Simply move the newly created config to /epg/sites/tvguide.comlocal/tvguide.comlocal.config.js
Note: You will need to create the tvguide.comlocal directory.

If you run epg with docker compose

You can provide the new config to the container with a volumes entry:

- './epg/tvguide.comlocal.config.js:/epg/sites/tvguide.comlocal/tvguide.comlocal.config.js'

If you run epg with docker (without docker compose)

Add the volume to your container with the -v arg
docker run -p 3000:3000 -v ./epg/tvguide.comlocal.config.js:/epg/sites/tvguide.comlocal/tvguide.comlocal.config.js