2009/9/1 Dan Brickley <[email protected]>

> On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 8:02 PM, Brian Butterworth<[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Ian,
> > It *WAS* in the original iMP.  The "series link" downloaded new shows
> before
> > they were broadcast and the DRM released them at the broadcast start
> point.
> >
> > If we are doing a "iPlayer Last Played" wishlist then I ask genie for my
> > last played list to be stored with my BBC login, not just in the cookies
> on
> > a single machine.
>
> And accessible by OAuth so other Web sites can negotiate access to it
> by asking the user, without everything having to be public. That
> feature could encourage quite a nice little ecosystem around the
> BBC...
>

I just looked at my iPlayer cookie, doesn't seem much of a surprise!

lp=*b007jv92*:*b005ryj6*
,b00m6bhh:b00m6b8l,b00mbx3w:b00mbx1p,b00m6zpt:b00m6zp9,b00m88t6:b00m88qy,b00m74rr:b00m74p9,b00760w8:b0016bnh,b00mg163:b00mg0xx,b007k4vh:b007hpzb,b00m6ggc:b00m6fzx&empsize=large

Well, the first programme in the list is
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/*b007jv92*/*b005ryj6* so we have pairs
of colon separated ids, comma separated...

And you can grab the image from http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/images/episode/
*b007jv92*_303_170.jpg<http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/images/episode/b007jv92_303_170.jpg>
and
the html info from
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/*b007jv92*<http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007jv92>
or
the

So, to conclude.  It's a short string that would give a lot of programming
joy and could easily cached with a bbc.co.uk login!


>
> cheers,
>
> Dan
>
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