Brian Butterworth wrote: > I think you are right about the "search results", I was going to make a > iPlayer search gadget, so you could create say a "Doctor Who" one for a > fan site, or do a "Stephen Fry" one for his, would seem a great little > marketing gadget for the iPlayer..
You could "screen scrape" the search page. I wrote some code to do this back when I was thinking of trying to get iPlayer running on an Android Phone (I gave up after realising I set my targets a little high!). Helpfully the code I wrote is now broken, but has been partially fixed (yay). Oddly the program used to fetch data from http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/metafiles/episode/[PID].xml but that returns a 404 now, any ideas what's changed? You can get the list of PIDs returned by a search using a few simple REGEXs, the only thing you have to be careful about is when results are split across pages. Andy - 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]/
