On 31/10/2012 22:51, dinkypumpkin wrote:
It looks like the URL changes for the new iPlayer radio site don't agree with Quick URL downloading. This came up in an earlier thread but slipped my mind.
I cracked open the code and verified that get_iplayer explicitly excludes URLs in the form http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/<PID> being passed to --pid (Quick URL in web pvr). It's only a guess, but I presume that was done to avoid inadvertently entering a series home page URL (which is in the excluded form) and launching a huge download of all available episodes. It would be an easy enough mistake to make since the latest episode is usually embedded in the series home page.
This scheme is somewhat at odds with the new iPlayer radio site, which uses URLs in the excluded format for both series and episode pages. It would be easy enough to remove the exclusion, but I'm inclined to leave it in place. It will only be an issue for a few cases like the OP's where a programme is still available from a web page after it has been removed from iPlayer. Such URLs can be edited (as has been noted in this thread) or the PID itself extracted and used with --pid on the get_iplayer command line. It would probably be worth making just the PID work with Quick URL as well. Anything available via the iPlayer site should of course be available from a get_iplayer search.
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