On 01/11/2014 02:01, Steven Maude wrote:
Finally, Rob's suggestion in this thread of using BBC search is a great one. It means you don't need to scrape the whole thing, though you'd have a short, acceptable wait for each search to run; that might be the way to go, unless there are compelling reasons to retrieve a complete feed.
Externalizing the search function seems like a good idea. Up to now the iPlayer site search was pretty crude compared to get_iplayer, but that advantage has been eroded. Once you can no longer do better searches, there isn't much point in keeping a local cache, and get_iplayer is just about at that point. It's a little unfortunate to have to parse a big glob of HTML to get search results, but as you've seen, most of it is chaff anyway. Nothing would please me more than whacking big chunks out of get_iplayer.
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