How to record all shows of a type in MythTV

I love documentaries. I try to record as many as I can for those rainy / sick days. But selecting them all manually would be a tedious task. Thats why I use a custom recording rule in MythTV. This is the code I use:


(program.description LIKE '%Dokumentation%' OR program.description LIKE '%Dokumentarfilm%')
AND (channel.callsign LIKE '3sat' OR channel.callsign LIKE 'arte')
AND program.description NOT LIKE '%Eisenbahn%'
AND program.description NOT LIKE '%kulinarisch%'
AND program.description NOT LIKE '%Nachbarn%'
AND program.title NOT LIKE '%Eurovision%'
AND program.title NOT LIKE '%Gleis%'
AND program.description NOT LIKE '%Tierdokumentation%'

The first parenthesis matches the description of all shows for the words that fairly often pinpoint to a documentation. The second parenthesis define the channels I know feature good documentaries. Lastly, after the parenthesis I define all the words that definitely point to something I do not want to record.

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