I've seen some people writing about how to extract the URL for the
back-end RTMP stream from iPlayer pages, and how to get the programme
ID and so forth from the in-page JavaScript, and I've seen references
to the idea of an "iPlayer API", but I've not seen anything more than
that. It looks like it might be (at least theoretically) possible to
put together such an API, i.e., so that I could pull out a list of
programmes currently showing in the iPlayer, and construct links for
each that would link to a page showing them (or to the underlying rtmp
stream). Has no-one done this because it's not currently possible
(owing to something I've missed) or because that's not allowed, or for
some other reason, or is it just that no-one's got around to doing it
yet? I'd love to write an iPlayer plugin for my media player (Elisa)
which allows me to browse through and play current iPlayer-available
programmes through the media player's interface (using the Flash
version of iPlayer). Am I prohibited from doing so?

sil

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