Right, I've quickly knocked together version 1:
http://download.webbie.org.uk/test/BBCiPlayer2.exe
To my intense irritation, however, Flash has decided to stop working
in IE on my machine, and after an hour I've given up trying to get it
to work. So the app gets as far as displaying all the programmes from
the selected channel, but can't open the browser and start them (it's
hard for blind people to find and activate the Flash player, so I need
to open the browser, get to the Flash component and "click it"
automatically.)
Good start though. I can see this replacing some of my current applications.
Cheers!
Alasdair
On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 8:18 PM, Brian Butterworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Alasdair,
>
> I would do something like this...
>
> <?php
>
> $arrChannels=array("radio1/programmes/schedules","1xtra/programmes/schedules","radio2/programmes/schedules","radio3/programmes/schedules","radio4/programmes/schedules/fm",
> "radio4/programmes/schedules/lw","fivelive/programmes/schedules","5livesportsextra/programmes/schedules","6music/programmes/schedules","bbc7/programmes/schedules",
> "worldservice/programmes/schedules","radioscotland/programmes/schedules/fm","bbchd/programmes/schedules","bbctwo/programmes/schedules/england","cbbc/programmes/schedules",
> "cbeebies/programmes/schedules","bbcthree/programmes/schedules","bbcfour/programmes/schedules","bbcnews/programmes/schedules","parliament/programmes/schedules","bbcone/programmes/schedules/london");
>
> $dtToday = getdate();
>
> $strD=$dtToday["mday"]; if (($strD+0)<10) $strD="0$strD";
> $strM=$dtToday["mon"]; if (($strM+0)<10) $strM="0$strM";
> $strY=$dtToday["year"];
>
>
> $strAllData="";
>
> foreach ($arrChannels as $strChannel)
> {
>
>
> $strAllData.=file_get_contents("http://www.bbc.co.uk/$strChannel/$strY/$strM/$strD.xml";);
>
> }
>
>
>
>
> echo $strAllData;
>
>
>
> ?>
>
>
> This gets the whole damn lot for the day in XML.
>
> The code runs here:
>
> http://ukfree.tv/igoogle/a/getalltodaysschedule.php5
>
>
>
>
> 2008/7/9 Alasdair King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>>
>> Brian, that's very helpful, thank-you. It's more work than I was
>> hoping to have to do, but I'll give it a shot!
>>
>> Alasdair
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 7:42 PM, Brian Butterworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> wrote:
>> > 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
>> >> > -
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>> >>
>> >>
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>> > Brian Butterworth
>> >
>> > http://www.ukfree.tv - independent digital television and switchover
>> > advice,
>> > since 2002
>>
>>
>>
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