On 10/01/2013 15:29, dinkypumpkin wrote:
On 10/01/2013 15:05, Kapitano wrote:
When I run this:
get_iplayer --type tv --subtitles-only --terse --search .*
--file-prefix="<name> - <episode> - <dldate>"
...GiP doesn't just list what subtitles are available, it downloads the
srt files. And if I run it again, it downloads them again.
If I run it on different days, I get identical srt files with different
datestamps in the filenames. If I do that with only
--file-prefix="<name> - <episode>", it overwrites the previous downloads
without asking.
Is there a way to prevent all of these happening? Or am I missing
something incredibly obvious?
The only thing you're missing is that get_iplayer is working as
intended. From the man page:
--subtitles-only
Only download the subtitles, not the programme
The --subtitles-only option means "download only the subtitles for the
programmes which match the search condition or programme ID". You can't
search for only those programmes which have subtitles. The programme
metadata used for searching does not include any indicator of whether or
not a particular programme has subtitles. To get that information
requires retrieving the stream information for each programme, which
would mean another ~1000 web requests for BBC TV, 3000+ for BBC radio -
not practical or efficient. Instead, you just add the --subtitles
option to --get or --pid and get_iplayer will grab the subtitles if they
exist. The --subtitles-only option effectively works the same way.
I should add that you can use the --info option to check if particular
programmes have subtitles. The "modes" value will contain "subtitles1"
if they are available.
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