Series Timer

scrapes the list of episodes of any series from wikipedia (i.e. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_House_episodes)

Download

https://rubygems.org/gems/series_timer

Usage

./bin/seriestimr -[lanf] <series names>

  • -l = last episode on air

  • -a = list all episodes

  • -n = next episode

  • -f = force a cache update

ex: ./bin/seriestimr -nf House "The Big Bang Theory" "Dexter"

Next episode

./bin/series_timer -n "The Mentalist" Californication
[The Mentalist] S05e13   Red is the New Black    2012-02-02 (4 days)
[Californication] S05e04     Waiting for the Miracle     2012-01-29 (0 days)

Last episode on air

./bin/series_timer -l House Dexter
[House] S08e09   Better Half     2012-01-23
[Dexter] S06e12  This Is the Way the World Ends  2011-12-18

All Episodes

./bin/series_timer -a "Game of Thrones"
[Game of Thrones] S01e01   Winter Is Coming  2011-04-17
[Game of Thrones] S01e02     The Kingsroad   2011-04-24
[Game of Thrones] S01e03     Lord Snow   2011-05-01
[Game of Thrones] S01e04     Cripples    2011-05-08
[Game of Thrones] S01e05     The Wolf and the Lion   2011-05-15
[Game of Thrones] S01e06     A Golden Crown  2011-05-22
[Game of Thrones] S01e07     You Win or You Die  2011-05-29
[Game of Thrones] S01e08     The Pointy End  2011-06-05
[Game of Thrones] S01e09     Baelor  2011-06-12
[Game of Thrones] S01e10     Fire and Blood  2011-06-19

Authorship

Written by Adriano Bacha for Mendicant University's January 2012 core skills course.

License

Copyright (c) 2012 Adriano Bacha

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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