On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 10:24:11AM +0100, Wrigley, Ave wrote: > Hi, > > Not sure if this is appropriate for the list, but ... I have developed > a tool for accessing the BBC's "Listen Again" service, so that I can > download programmes and convert them to MP3s. This is a perl app with > a CLI and a perl/Tk GUI, and is available under GPL at: > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/bbc2mp3/
Ave, This sounds a bit like Ben Hammersley's RadioPod http://www.benhammersley.com/weblog/2004/11/14/releasing_radiopod.html https://sourceforge.net/projects/radiopod/ > Mainly, I wanted to get some feedback on what you though of this, but > also wanted to find out if I could make use of any backstage-type info > about "Listen Again". At the moment I am "screen-scraping" info about > programmes, so if this were available as a feed that would be great. > Maybe "Listen Again" links could be incorporated into listings feeds? > Also, would like to know what the BBC attitiude to this sort of thing > is. I know that there are limited MP3 download / podcast trials going > on, but presumably there are reasons (licence issues?) why this is not > done across all the output. There was a brief discussion on similar lines on this list recently. There's currently no Backstage data along these lines but the BBC are interested in providing something like this at some (unspecified) point in the future. As for screen-scraping, you might be interested in what I've been doing in this area. My code is at http://cvs.dave.org.uk/index.cgi/get_streams/, the raw data that it extracts is at http://dave.org.uk/streams/streams.yaml (in YAML format) and the web page I produce from that is at http://dave.org.uk/streams/. Let me know if I can be any more help. Dave... -- Ain't there one damn song That can make me break down and cry
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