> On 14/2/2011, at 8:17am, Bill Lancaster wrote: > > > Is it possible to get the time a programme will be > broadcast from just > > the PID? > > > > For example b00yhv30 refers to a brodcast on Radio 4 on Friday 18th > > > Not sure how unhelpful this answer is, but the PIDs are fairly unique. > > Thus the first hit when Googling this PID is for the > episode's homepage at the BBC, which reveals that the show > airs at 9am on Friday 18th.
Sorry I sort of mis-answered with my earlier reply, but using the string I put together earlier will still give you some broadcast information - and some clues - but not the exact info you're after. It'd be useful for you to read this thread first: http://linuxcentre.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=160 For the ZingZillas example I used earlier, the full metadata includes these fields: firstbcast: default: 2010-04-05T08:00:00+01:00 firstbcastrel: default: 315 days 8 hours ago index: 918 lastbcast: default: 2010-04-05T08:00:00+01:00 lastbcastrel: default: 315 days 8 hours ago Using expiry: 2011-02-18T08:59:00Z expiryrel: in 3 days 16 hours You could /kinda/ figure out when it was last broadcast using those two fields, as most material is 28 days except for regularly repeated or very popular shows (such as my ZingZillas episode, or strangely the latest episode of Top Gear) which has a 7 day on-demand window. [1] You can see broadcast dates of course on the programme's respective /programmes page; http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00rzt4f#broadcasts for my example. As magic144 replied on that linuxcentre forum thread; "I was under the impression that the <lastbcast> tag in the generic XML file referred to the actual most-recent broadcast for the episode in question, but did not necessarily correspond with the actual broadcast date of the episode played/downloaded" Which seems to be borne out in my own investigation. It looks like you're going to have to manually grok the /programmes page for the programme to get the actual most recent broadcast date. The only readily available place where you can get forthcoming broadcast dates from is the /programmes page (c.f. forthcoming ZingZillas episodes: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00s1lvw/episodes/upcoming ) Sadly what we're trying to achieve here just doesn't appear to be possible because the Beeb don't supply the specific info you're after in the accompanying metadata. 'expiry' and 'expiryrel' is probably the closest you're going to get. However, I'm more than happy to be proved wrong :-) [1] As an aside, the latest Top Gear episode currently has a 7 day on-demand window (http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00ymwfn/Top_Gear_Series_16_Episode_4/ ) but the previous episodes all expire on the 20th of March. The earlier episodes also have HD versions available; the latest episode does not. I have a feeling the longer on-demand window is applied when the BBC HD version becomes available, the 7 day window being for the default BBC2 SD version. (only an educated guess though, is this right or am I wide of the mark?) _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
