Automatically downloading BBC radio tracklistings

2013-07-17 Thread Steven Maude
I frequently use get_iplayer to download radio shows and wanted to also automatically download the associated show tracklisting in plain text along with the audio for future reference. Since I wrote a Python script that seems to work well with get_iplayer's --command option, I thought I'd share it

Re: Re: [ANN] get_iplayer search and PVR functions no longer work - no fix available

2014-10-29 Thread Steven Maude
That's one model. It depends on caching policies, geographic restrictions and other terms as yet unknown. Even if all that were worked out, it means get_iplayer would require a central resource that somebody would have to pay for and maintain. Personally, I don't want go down that road

Re: A message from Auntie

2014-10-31 Thread Steven Maude
On 31/10/2014 02:55, Dave Ford wrote: As posted on the BBC Internet blog - from Jon Billings: 'In particular, the BBC does not sanction XBMC, get_iplayer or similar clients, and the iPlayer RSS feeds were never designed or intended to support them. Nitro will almost certainly not support their

Re: A message from Auntie

2014-10-31 Thread Steven Maude
On 31/10/2014 08:57, Chris Marriott wrote: Sorry if I'm missing something here, but what's the problem with downloading by PID? It's always worked perfectly well for me, and this change hasn't affected it at all. Chris It does work, but the PVR option was a great feature, particularly when

Re: Proof-of-concept scraper for iPlayer web frontend TV data to JSON

2014-10-31 Thread Steven Maude
On 01/11/2014 01:09, Rob Dixon wrote: I would use the BBC server to do the search for me, after which there is little work to be done. For instance, if I look for all Book at Bedtime episodes with this URL http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/programmes/a-z/by/book%20at%20bedtime/player then I am taken

Re: Proof-of-concept scraper for iPlayer web frontend TV data to JSON

2014-10-31 Thread Steven Maude
On 01/11/2014 00:27, dinkypumpkin wrote: Thanks for that. From underneath 10,000 lines of Perl I gaze longingly at that lovely strictly-indented, sigil-less Python. Python is really easy to use, though not everyone loves the indentation! You wouldn't necessarily need to drill all the way

Re: searching the archives

2014-11-02 Thread Steven Maude
On 02/11/2014 11:13, Anthony Griffiths wrote: can anyone tell me if there is a search function connected to the get_iplayer mailing list archives? I want to search the archives for info but all I can find so far is this: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/get_iplayer/ which imho is not much