rinfo - radio info

A utility that shows what is playing right now on selected radio stations

General info

• rinfo looks up the web what is playing right now on a selected radio station.
• The supported stations are shown with rinfo -l
• If a station needs cookies and HTTP::Cookies is installed, cookies are accepted and deleted at program termination. Cookies are only used if the station needs them.
• Some stations need an Useragent to be transmitted. If so, an appropriate UA is hardcoded.
• If Text::Unidecode and HTML::Entities are installed, rinfo supports HTTP entities.
• The web site shown with rinfo -i isn't necessarily the home page of the station.
• If you want to support further stations, add a new section in the hash $cfg and implement a function for parsing the web response. Take a look at the code, it's not that difficult.

Usage

$ rinfo -h

This is rinfo version 20190429.1

What plays right now on the radio?

usage: rinfo [OPTIONS]
          -d:     debug: show http response
          -e:     use HTML entities if possible
          -E:     don't use HTML entities
          -l:     list known radio stations
          -h:     you're reading it!
          -i:     show info about selected station
          -s: <s> select radio station <s> (default: dyl)
          -t:     use Term::ANSIColor if possible
          -T:     don't use Term::ANSIColor
          -v:     show version info and exit

Examples

query the default station

$ rinfo

Now playing on Dylan Radio:

Title:  I Shall Be Free No. 10
Artist: Bob Dylan

Coming up next:
- Saving Grace
- Tough Mama

query a selected station

$ rinfo -s mo

Now playing on Metal Only:

Title:   Set Fire To The Sky
Artist:  Hypnos
Program: Keine Grusse und Wunsche moglich.
Genre:   Mixed Metal

show implemented radio stations

$ rinfo -l

885     : 885fm
bach    : Bach Radio
beat    : Beatles Radio
dyl     : Dylan Radio
mo      : Metal Only
paradise: radio paradise

show info about a certain radio station

$ rinfo -i -s paradise

name    : radio paradise
url     : https://legacy.radioparadise.com/rp3.php?name=Music
agent   : none needed
cookies : not needed

Note for users of arch linux

Download PKGBUILD from this repo and execute

makepkg -sic

to download and install rinfo. For this to work you must have git installed.