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-----Original Message-----
From: get_iplayer [mailto:get_iplayer-boun...@lists.infradead.org] On Behalf Of 
Rob Dixon
Sent: 31 October 2014 16:52
To: Stuart Henderson
Cc: get_iplayer
Subject: Re: Solutions to loss of RSS feed

On 31/10/2014 23:12, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> On 2014/10/31 21:21, Rob Dixon wrote:
>> - Write a new application that uses the Nitro API, ostensibly to 
>> provide a different and more flexible way of viewing the BBC 
>> schedule, but capable of exporting the information for use in 
>> get_iplayer. This could even reconstruct the old XML RSS feeds, but I 
>> don't see a reason to add such an awkward intermediate format.
>>
>> This last option seems to me to be the most likely to succeed. I have 
>> applied for a licence for my own use and I shall be experimenting 
>> with what is possible. After some experimentation I will be glad to 
>> add an export along the lines I have described, to be specified by 
>> those responsible for get_iplayer.
>
> Whether or not this could export something that would be useful to 
> get_iplayer, it would be useful in itself. I've certainly used 
> get_iplayer a few times to look for programmes of interest because the 
> search facilities are....slightly better than the BBC's website ;)... 
> and then gone to watch them using a BBC-Approved Method.

Precisely, and I assume I would have no problem getting a licence to write 
something of that sort. The fact that it may export something that could be 
useful for get_iplayer is incidental.

Rob



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