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GET /v1/now
What every channel in a country is showing this minute, with the next programme after it.
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The full schedule in Africa/Johannesburg time, what is on now and next, and the same data in your app with one call. Search any past day on the Archive plan.
All times Africa/Johannesburg. The same day from the API: GET /v1/channels/ch_17wa3exg/schedule?date=2026-10-13&tz=Africa/Johannesburg
| Time | Programme | Episode | Category | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 00:00 | Celebrity Scoop | 30m | ||
| 00:30 | Dark Minds | 29m | ||
| 00:59 | Drive | 31m | ||
| 01:00 | Drive | 30m | ||
| 01:30 | InQuestion On now | 30m | ||
| 02:00 | Celebrity Scoop | 30m | ||
| 02:30 | Dark Minds | 30m | ||
| 03:00 | Drive | 30m | ||
| 03:30 | InQuestion | 30m | ||
| 04:00 | Celebrity Scoop | 30m | ||
| 04:30 | Checkpoint | 29m | ||
| 04:59 | Your Entertainment Fix | 30m | ||
| 05:00 | Your Entertainment Fix | 30m | ||
| 05:29 | Devi | 31m | ||
| 05:30 | Devi | 30m | ||
| 06:00 | The South African Morning | 2h | ||
| 08:00 | The South African Morning | 30m | ||
| 08:30 | The South African Morning | 30m | ||
| 09:00 | NewsLink | 1h | ||
| 10:00 | NewsLink | 1h | ||
| 11:00 | NewsLink | 1h | ||
| 12:00 | All Angles | 1h | ||
| 13:00 | All Angles | 1h | ||
| 14:00 | All Angles | 1h | ||
| 15:00 | Today | 1h | ||
| 16:00 | Today | 1h | ||
| 17:00 | Today | 1h | ||
| 18:00 | South Africa Tonight | 30m | ||
| 18:30 | South Africa Tonight | 30m | ||
| 19:00 | South Africa Tonight | 1h | ||
| 20:00 | South Africa Tonight | 1h | ||
| 21:00 | NewsNight | 30m | ||
| 21:30 | NewsNight | 30m | ||
| 22:00 | NewsNight | 30m | ||
| 22:30 | Case Closed | 30m | ||
| 23:00 | Gangland: An Annika Larsen Special... | 30m | ||
| 23:30 | Checkpoint | 29m | ||
| 23:59 | Your Entertainment Fix | 30m |
Copy, add your key, run. The free key reads yesterday and today on every channel, 500 calls a day.
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $TVG_KEY" \ "https://api.tvguideapi.com/v1/channels/ch_17wa3exg/schedule?date=2026-10-13&tz=Africa/Johannesburg" # what is on now, and next curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $TVG_KEY" \ "https://api.tvguideapi.com/v1/channels/ch_17wa3exg/now" # any past day (Archive plan) curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $TVG_KEY" \ "https://api.tvguideapi.com/v1/channels/ch_17wa3exg/history?from=2025-10-12T00:00:00Z&to=2025-10-13T00:00:00Z"
$ch = curl_init("https://api.tvguideapi.com/v1/channels/ch_17wa3exg/schedule?date=2026-10-13&tz=Africa/Johannesburg"); curl_setopt_array($ch, [ CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => ["Authorization: Bearer " . getenv("TVG_KEY")], ]); foreach (json_decode(curl_exec($ch), true)["data"] as $slot) { echo $slot["start"], " ", $slot["title"], "\n"; }
const r = await fetch("https://api.tvguideapi.com/v1/channels/ch_17wa3exg/schedule?date=2026-10-13&tz=Africa/Johannesburg", { headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.TVG_KEY}` }, }); const { data } = await r.json(); data.forEach(s => console.log(s.start, s.title, s.flags.live ? "LIVE" : ""));
import os, requests r = requests.get( "https://api.tvguideapi.com/v1/channels/ch_17wa3exg/schedule", params={"date": "2026-10-13", "tz": "Africa/Johannesburg"}, headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['TVG_KEY']}"}, ) for slot in r.json()["data"]: print(slot["start"], slot["title"])
// GET /v1/channels/ch_17wa3exg/schedule?date=2026-10-13, the first programme { "data": [ { "id": "ls_mgbzze86", "channel": "ch_17wa3exg", "start": "2026-10-12T22:00:00Z", "stop": "2026-10-12T22:30:00Z", "title": "Celebrity Scoop", "sub_title": null, "description": null, "category": [], "flags": { "new": false, "live": false } } ], "meta": { "count": 38, "date": "2026-10-13", "tz": "Africa/Johannesburg" } }
What was on, on any date we hold: for research, catch-up, clip finding or proving a broadcast. Any window up to 31 days with /v1/channels/{id}/history on the Archive plan.
| Time | Sunday 12 October 2025 | Category |
|---|---|---|
| Nothing held for that day. Try another date. | ||
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