Alasdair, You can easily get the current iPlayer programmes by using the /programmes feeds.
You can get each channel's programme listing for each day by using, for example: http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcone/programmes/schedules/london/2008/07/09.xml You will find in the XML an <iplayer> tag: <iplayer> <audio_expires/> <video_expires>2008-07-16T04:39:00+01:00</video_expires> </iplayer> Which tells you if it's audio or video and when it expires. Also in each <broadcast> item is a <pid> field, which you use to get to the iPlayer content. (not the PID in the <series> section). Just use a URL starting http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/ with the PID on the end to get to the content. The other TV URLs are: http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctwo/programmes/schedules/england/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/programmes/schedules/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/programmes/schedules/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/programmes/schedules/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/programmes/schedules/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcnews/programmes/schedules/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/parliament/programmes/schedules/ I hope this helps. 2008/7/9 Alasdair King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > (Apologies if you've heard this all before) > > I write several very popular applications for blind people to allow > them to access BBC content easily: > http://www.webbie.org.uk/accessiblebbc/index.htm > http://www.webbie.org.uk/accessibleradio/index.htm > http://www.webbie.org.uk/accessiblebbciplayer/index.htm > > They all work by screen-scraping and using webbrowser automation to > extract the simple information I need to be able to present blind > people with easy-to-use lists of available content, for example: > - All the radio programs available through Listen Again for a given > channel. > - All the TV programs available through iPlayer right now. > - All the live radio stations currently available. > > I would LOVE, and have repeatedly requested to anyone kind enough to > listen, some kind of OPML/RSS/RDF source for the content. Then I could > stop my screen-scraping, which of course breaks when the BBC updates > their website (hardly ever, thanks guys!) and spend my limited > development time on a different open-source and free accessibility > project for blind people. I can only assume that some politics are > preventing this, since it doesn't seem a technically-challenging > problem. > > Best wishes, > Dr. Alasdair King > WebbIE > http://www.webbie.org.uk > > > On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 10:50 AM, David Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 2008/7/9 Brian Butterworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Or perhaps just one big > >> http://feeds.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/catalogue.xml > >> with the whole structure in it? > > > > That'd work better :) > > > > -d > > - > > 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. > > > > > > -- > Alasdair King > - > 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. > -- Brian Butterworth http://www.ukfree.tv - independent digital television and switchover advice, since 2002
