README

This package provides a client for the Press Association TV API.

It provides access to information regarding TV channels, schedules and schedule items.

The Press Association (PA) is the national news agency for the UK and Ireland and a leading multimedia content provider across web, mobile, broadcast and print. For the last 145 years PA has been providing fast, accurate feeds of text, data, photos and video. Today the business is increasingly focused on the delivery of complete products for both digital and print clients.

Installation

To install, just run the following Composer command from the root of your project.

composer require langleyfoxall/press-association-tv-api-wrapper

Usage

First instantiate the client using your API key.

$client = new \LangleyFoxall\PressAssociationTvApi\Client('API_KEY');

Channels

To retrieve details regarding a channel, call the getChannel method, passing it a channel ID. If you wish to retrieve details on multiple channels at once, you can call the getChannels method instead, passing it an array of channel IDs.

These methods will, respectively, return a Channel object or a collection of Channel objects.

You may wish to surround this method call with a try catch block to catch any networking exceptions.

$channel = $client->getChannel('da015cc7-a71e-3137-a110-30dc51262eef');

$channels = $client->getChannels([
    'da015cc7-a71e-3137-a110-30dc51262eef',
    '3b205a49-a866-32a0-b391-c727d52b1e79',
    '7cd38a6c-bb1f-306a-a6c6-00c7f7558432',
]);

Example Channel object

The example below shows the available public properties that are available with a Channel object.

object(LangleyFoxall\PressAssociationTvApi\Objects\Channel)#1804 (2) {
  ["title"]=>
  string(20) "Sky Sports Action HD"
  ["images"]=>
  object(Illuminate\Support\Collection)#1803 (1) {
    ["items":protected]=>
    array(1) {
      [0]=>
      object(stdClass)#1800 (2) {
        ["kind"]=>
        string(12) "picture:logo"
        ["rendition"]=>
        object(stdClass)#1801 (3) {
          ["default"]=>
          object(stdClass)#1798 (1) {
            ["href"]=>
            string(43) "http://tv.static.press.net/logo/p329131.png"
          }
          ["transparent-light"]=>
          object(stdClass)#1794 (1) {
            ["href"]=>
            string(50) "http://tv.static.press.net/logo/p2201707181414.png"
          }
          ["transparent-dark"]=>
          object(stdClass)#1795 (1) {
            ["href"]=>
            string(50) "http://tv.static.press.net/logo/p1201707181414.png"
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

Schedules

You can retrieve the schedule for today by calling the getScheduleForToday method, passing it an array of channel IDs. Similarly, you can also retrieve the schedule for a specific day using the getScheduleForDay method, passing it an array of channel IDs and a Carbon date object.

Both of these method will return a Schedule object.

You may wish to surround this method call with a try catch block to catch any networking exceptions.

$schedule = $client->getScheduleForToday([
    'da015cc7-a71e-3137-a110-30dc51262eef',
    '3b205a49-a866-32a0-b391-c727d52b1e79',
    '7cd38a6c-bb1f-306a-a6c6-00c7f7558432',
]);

$tomorrowSchedule = $client->getScheduleForDay([
        'da015cc7-a71e-3137-a110-30dc51262eef',
        '3b205a49-a866-32a0-b391-c727d52b1e79',
        '7cd38a6c-bb1f-306a-a6c6-00c7f7558432',
    ], \Carbon\Carbon::now()->addDay());

You can then retrieve all schedule items, by calling the Schedule object's all method.

$items = $schedule->all();

Alternatively, you can retrieve schedule items filtered by genre, by calling the Schedule object's getByGenre method. This method accepts a genre or sport name, such as Football, Tennis, or Boxing.

$items = $schedule->getByGenre('Football');

Example ScheduleItem object

The example below shows the available public properties that are available with a ScheduleItem object.

object(LangleyFoxall\PressAssociationTvApi\Objects\ScheduleItem)#1542 (5) {
  ["title"]=>
  string(27) "Hockey: China v Netherlands"
  ["episodeTitle"]=>
  string(27) "Hockey: China v Netherlands"
  ["dateTime"]=>
  object(Carbon\Carbon)#1538 (3) {
    ["date"]=>
    string(26) "2018-07-27 23:00:00.000000"
    ["timezone_type"]=>
    int(1)
    ["timezone"]=>
    string(6) "+00:00"
  }
  ["channel"]=>
  object(LangleyFoxall\PressAssociationTvApi\Objects\Channel)#1533 (2) {
    ["title"]=>
    string(10) "BT Sport 2"
    ["images"]=>
    object(Illuminate\Support\Collection)#1534 (1) {
      ["items":protected]=>
      array(1) {
        [0]=>
        object(stdClass)#1531 (2) {
          ["kind"]=>
          string(12) "picture:logo"
          ["rendition"]=>
          object(stdClass)#1532 (3) {
            ["default"]=>
            object(stdClass)#1529 (1) {
              ["href"]=>
              string(43) "http://tv.static.press.net/logo/p388708.png"
            }
            ["transparent-light"]=>
            object(stdClass)#1530 (1) {
              ["href"]=>
              string(50) "http://tv.static.press.net/logo/p2201805121806.png"
            }
            ["transparent-dark"]=>
            object(stdClass)#1506 (1) {
              ["href"]=>
              string(50) "http://tv.static.press.net/logo/p1201805121806.png"
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
  ["genres"]=>
  object(Illuminate\Support\Collection)#1535 (1) {
    ["items":protected]=>
    array(1) {
      [0]=>
      string(6) "hockey"
    }
  }
}

Limitations

This library does not currently deal with API pagination. This should not be a problem, as channels do not tend to have over 1000 schedule items per day.