Alasdair, That's a nice little application! It seems to work just fine for me.
The only thing I would suggest is that you can easily get rid of 'repeats' by checking for duplicate PID values. I suspect that the current iPlayer code does not support 'autostart'. The BBC people might just add it as a parameter if you ask under the auspices of accessibility. 2008/7/9 Alasdair King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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 > >> >> > - > >> >> > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk developer discussion group. 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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 > > > > -- > 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
