Thanks for this suggestion. If I've understood get_iplayer correctly, that suggestion does a search. I don't really want to do that, as it can sometimes pick up false positives, particularly for programmes with short series titles such as "Heresy" or "Genius". Can it be done with a PID? (I'm also interested in knowing HOW get_iplayer might do that.)
Mark -----Original Message----- From: get_iplayer [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jon Davies Sent: 08 May 2014 18:18 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: player.xml broken On 7 May 2014 14:22, Mark Barnes <[email protected]> wrote: > I've been using player.xml URLs to download the programmes available in a > series or brand. Unfortunately, most of them have stopped working in the last > few days, and return "Invalid Page Number". > > This doesn't work: > http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qfz6/episodes/player.xml > But this one does: > http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006r9xr/episodes/player.xml > > Does anyone know a way in which I get a list of every programme in a series, > so I can use get_iplayer to download them? You could use a command line something like this: get_iplayer --type radio "Classic Serial" --get which will get all available programmes in the "Classic Serial" series. (and similarly get_iplayer --type radio "Start the Week" --get) What you can't do is download episodes that are no longer on iPlayer. So you'll have to run this periodically - or have get_iplayer do it for you. (there are too many ways to describe them all here, try https://github.com/dinkypumpkin/get_iplayer/wiki and then ask ;-) Cheers Jon A couple of ads (yeah, I'm biased, and I do get referral bonuses)... - 15GB free cloud storage: https://copy.com?r=TNZbAJ - use this link to get an extra 5GB for both of us - Award winning Broadband from £2.99 a month: http://www.plus.net/myreferrals/new.html?intReferrerID=00611940 _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
