On 14/09/2014 21:51, [email protected] wrote:
Reply to the list, not to me.
Well spotted on the episodes 10 and 12!
But I was wrong about your episode not being on the iPlayer site. It is there after all, but that still doesn't mean a get_iplayer search will find it.
So, to fill in a gap in my understanding, how does get_iplayer get its view of what programmes are available? I noticed that recently get_iplayer didn't see the week's worth of radio programmes with the four week expiry date beyond the normal week whereas (I think) the iPhone app did. I think about a week's worth of radio had longer expiry dates after some service failure (I was out of the UK at the time)...
The data feeds used by get_iplayer contain only the previous 7 days of programme broadcasts. The exception is that certain series (e.g., some BBC-produced shows like Doctor Who) have all their episodes available in the feeds as a "series catch-up". As with Horizon, older episodes of other series may still be available, but you'll need to use URLs or PIDs to get them. They won't appear in the results of a get_iplayer search because they are not in the data feeds.
The search working for you is odd, when I put the URL in the Quick URL field (the default .* in Search, the default Name in "Search in" with only BBC TV ticked) I get the entire ~1300 programmes returned, as if I'd not set any search criteria.
Quick URL is for recording, not for searching. Go back and look at the old thread you referenced in your original message: Click "Record" after entering the URL.
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