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<desc>Console interface, exporting data.</desc>
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<title>CLI (command line interface)</title>
<p>Streamtuner2 is a graphical tool. But it also has a limited commandline interface,
which can be used to query station information. This is useful for interfacing with
other applications.</p>
<p>Open a terminal and call <code>streamtuner2 help</code> to get an overview over
available commands.</p>
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<title>Examples</title>
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<title><code>streamtuner2 play "station"</code></title>
<p>This command looks through all channel plugins, and finds a station containing the
mentioned title. You must put the station title in quotes in shell calls, if it contains
e.g. spaces. You can optionally specify a channelname before the station title.</p>
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<title><code>streamtuner2 url [channel] "station"</code></title>
<p>Just looks up the streaming URL for a given station. If no channel name is given,
ST2 searches through all available channel plugins again.</p>
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<title><code>streamtuner2 stream shoutcast "station"</code></title>
<p>Prints available station data as JSON</p>
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<title><code>streamtuner2 category internet_radio_org_uk "Pop"</code></title>
<p>Loads fresh data from the specified channel service, and prints out JSON data for
the whole category. Note that the category name must have the excact case.</p>
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<title><code>streamtuner2 categories channel</code></title>
<p>Fetches the current list of available categories/genres for a channel service.</p>
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<p>Specifying a channel name is often optional. If you add one, it should be all-lowercase.
You can also give a list, like "shoutcast,xiph" which would be searched then.</p>
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<title>GUI options</title>
<p>There are also --gtk3 and --gtk2 command line options. Usually the right toolkit
is picked depending on Python version. But you can manually override this.</p>
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