On 19/02/2014 14:10, michael norman wrote:
To be specific I would like to find the pids for the programmes here
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/collections/p01m79bn/blues
and download them either individually or as a batch
There are some things you can download as a batch, but not these. That
page links to a number of episodes from different series, thus the
"/collections/" in the URL. Use Ben's handy spreadsheet to scrape the
PIDs and download them directly. You can't download those 11 programmes
as a batch because they are not part of a series. They just happen to
be linked from the same page, and get_iplayer doesn't have the ability
to scrape arbitrary links from a page.
If you want to download a series as a batch, find the PID from its
series home page. For example, Devil's Blues Series 2:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00ljwxp
Then use --pid-recursive:
get_iplayer --pid=p00ljwxp --pid-recursive
The XML::Simple Perl module is required for --pid-recursive. If you're
on OSX or Windows, you should have it installed. If you're on
Linux/Unix, you may not. get_iplayer will warn you if you don't. If
not installed see:
https://github.com/dinkypumpkin/get_iplayer/wiki/manual#wiki-manual-perl
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