Apologies for the delay in replying ... Dave, we're working on this, in various forms across various projects - but principally, the system which currently drives the Radio 3 website, and hopefully soon sections of Radio 4 (and then other radio networks), will enable us to produce pretty much exactly the kind of info you detail below, in the 'shape' you want, too.
So while much of the following info is already available: > * Name of station > * URL of home page > * URLs of all "listen live" streams (in radio player) > * (where available) URLs of actual real player streams > * List of all programs on the station ... it's not gathered together particularly coherently, pan-BBC. Likewise the following, where much of it is also currently available: > For each program, the following: > * Title of program > * Date/time of broadcast > * URL of program's web site > * URLs of all "listen again" links (in radio player app) > * (where available) URLS of actual real streams > * (where available) URLs of MP3 versions Also available, just not as coherently and completely as we'd like ... yet. But we're working on it, both to improve the user experience around sites and services in general and to enable external syndication/application building etc. (caveat: rights permitting natch). Do mail me with specific queries/ideas etc. hth, D. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Cross > Sent: 25 July 2005 09:40 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [backstage] Listen Again Links > > > So Backstage has officially launched and in his talk on > Saturday Ben[1] asked us to ask for any more data feeds that > we might be interested in. So here's my request. > > Currently I build my BBC streams page > (http://dave.org.uk/streams/) by screen scraping the > data > from the BBC radio web site. This is, of course, fragile and > also puts an unnecessary strain on the BBC's servers. It > would all be a lot easier if the BBC made that data available > in some kind of data feed. > > What I'm suggesting is a data faile containing the following for each > station: > > * Name of station > * URL of home page > * URLs of all "listen live" streams (in radio player) > * (where available) URLs of actual real player streams > * List of all programs on the station > > And then for each program, the following: > > * Title of program > * Date/time of broadcast > * URL of program's web site > * URLs of all "listen again" links (in radio player app) > * (where available) URLS of actual real streams > * (where available) URLs of MP3 versions > > If you wanted to add other metadata (like genre) then that > would, of course, be great :) > > What do you think? Possible? Probable? > > Cheers, > > Dave... > > [1] Good talk, by the way, Ben. > > -- > If there's something inside that you wanna say > Say it out loud it'll be ok > - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
