Hi Stuart - there's nothing stopping you from setting this up :-) The iPlayer team are working on a proper API though, no idea when it'll be release though sorry.
m On 26/1/08 14:00, "Stuart Langridge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 _______________________ Matthew Cashmore Development Producer BBC Future Media & Technology, Research and Innovation BC4A5, Broadcast Centre, Media Village, W12 7TP T: 020 8008 3959 (02 83959) M: 07711 913241 (072 83959) - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk developer discussion group. To unsubscribe, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe backstage-developer [your email] as the message.
