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Every country's schedule under one key, one shape and one set of ids.
GET /v1/now
What every channel in a country is showing this minute, with the next programme after it. On the Live plan; the free key reads yesterday.
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Every lab tool reads only the public API with your own key, so it runs on the free key.
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Checked every minute from outside our own servers.
248 channels with what is on now, the sport worth knowing about this week, and the endpoints that give you every slot. Times are Europe/Budapest.
Counted from our own listings every hour. The detail behind each figure is one API call away.
Every call below answers for Hungary as shown. The Free key reads yesterday; the plans add today, the days ahead, changes and the archive.
| Endpoint | What it returns | Plan | |
|---|---|---|---|
| GET /v1/countries/HU/channels | Every TV channel in one country, ordered the way its own guides list them, with ids, names, logos and categories. | Free key | Docs |
| GET /v1/countries/HU/now | What is on now on every TV channel in a country, with what comes next, in one call. | Live and above | Docs |
| GET /v1/countries/HU/tonight | Prime time tonight on every TV channel in a country, from the local hour you choose, in one grid. | Live and above | Docs |
| GET /v1/countries/HU/coverage | How full the TV data is for a country on a day: the share of programmes with a description, category, episode number and more. | Free key | Docs |
| GET /v1/guide | A TV guide grid for up to 50 channels over a window you choose, every slot with its times in UTC, ready to draw. | Free key | Docs |
| GET /v1/channels/{id}/schedule | A TV channel's day slot by slot: start and stop in UTC, title, description, category, and the series and episode where we matched it. | Free key | Docs |
| GET /v1/events?country=HU | Sports events on TV by sport, league and day, in every country or only those on air where you are. | Live and above | Docs |
| GET /v1/changes?country=HU | Every TV listing that moved, appeared or disappeared since a time you give, to keep your own copy of the guide in step. | Live and above | Docs |
| GET /v1/channels/{id}/history | Past schedules for a TV channel from the archive, slot by slot over any window of up to 31 days, with the same fields as today. | Archive | Docs |
| GET /v1/xmltv?country=HU | A country or a set of channels as a standard XMLTV file, up to 14 days ahead, for media centres and IPTV players. | Live and above | Docs |
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $TVG_KEY" \ "https://api.tvguideapi.com/v1/countries/HU/now"
$ctx = stream_context_create(["http" => ["header" => "Authorization: Bearer " . getenv("TVG_KEY")]]); $r = json_decode(file_get_contents("https://api.tvguideapi.com/v1/countries/HU/now", false, $ctx), true); foreach ($r["data"] as $c) echo $c["channel"], " ", $c["now"]["title"] ?? "", "\n";
const r = await fetch("https://api.tvguideapi.com/v1/countries/HU/now", { headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.TVG_KEY}` } }); for (const c of (await r.json()).data) console.log(c.channel, c.now?.title);
import os, requests r = requests.get("https://api.tvguideapi.com/v1/countries/HU/now", headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['TVG_KEY']}"}) for c in r.json()["data"]: print(c["channel"], (c["now"] or {}).get("title"))
// GET /v1/countries/HU/now, one channel, in short { "data": [ { "channel": "ch_npypqaw3", "now": { "start": "2026-11-02T19:55:00Z", "stop": "2026-11-02T21:15:00Z", "title": "Pilátus", "progress": 0.38 }, "next": { "start": "2026-11-02T21:15:00Z", "title": "A camorrista" } } ], "meta": { "count": 342, "at": "2026-11-02T20:31:01Z" } }
The key competitions first, then the rest with a named competition. Every event and every channel is GET /v1/events?country=HU.
| Kick-off | Event | Competition | Channels | Showing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16:00 Tue 3 Nov | Labdarúgás v UEFA Ifjúsági Liga | Sport | 1 | Repeat |
| 23:20 Tue 3 Nov | UEFA Bajnokok Ligája 2026-2027 v Összefoglaló | Sport | 1 | Repeat |
| 16:55 Wed 4 Nov | Rövidpályás úszó magyar bajnokság v Döntők | Sport | 1 | Repeat |
| 04:45 Thu 5 Nov | A mágikus pillanat v a 2026-os női F4 története | Sport | 1 | Repeat |
| 13:00 Thu 5 Nov | Angol másodosztály v összefoglaló | Sport | 1 | Repeat |
| 17:15 Thu 5 Nov | Handball v EHF European Championship | Sport | 1 | Repeat |
| 18:45 Thu 5 Nov | UEFA Labdarúgó Európa Liga v AC Milan | Sport | 1 | Repeat |
| 18:45 Thu 5 Nov | Labdarúgás v UEFA Európa Liga | Sport | 1 | Repeat |
| 21:45 Thu 5 Nov | Amerikai Foci v NCAA összefoglaló | Sport | 1 | Repeat |
| 00:00 Fri 6 Nov | Handball v EHF European Championship Qualifiers | Sport | 1 | Repeat |
By category and by owner, from the channel registry.
The TV guide for Hungary covers 248 channels, 342 of them with a schedule today, and most of its main channels run 6 days ahead. Every time on this page is Europe/Budapest, and its listings history reaches back to 2023.
Most of Hungary's channels are general, entertainment and films channels, and the biggest owners are TV2 Média Csoport Kft., Duna Médiaszolgáltató Nonprofit Zrt. and Skydance EMEA. This week 16 sports events are on TV in Hungary, 0 of them live.
Developers get the same data from the TV Guide API: every channel in Hungary with GET /v1/countries/HU/channels, what is on now with GET /v1/countries/HU/now, and a full day with GET /v1/guide?country=HU.
We list 248 channels in Hungary, 342 of them with a schedule today.
Most of its main channels have listings 6 days ahead; some go further.
This page shows Europe/Budapest. The API returns UTC and converts to any time zone you pass.
With a TV Guide API key: GET /v1/countries/HU/now for what is on now, or GET /v1/guide?country=HU for a whole day. The free key reads yesterday.
16 events are on Hungary's channels this week. Every one, with its channels, is GET /v1/events?country=HU, or see Where to watch.
Every country has one page like this one. Channel by channel detail lives in the API: every country.