On 2014-11-02 20:22, Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer wrote: > Dirk Husemann <dirk+getipla...@d2h.net> wrote: > >> On 2014-11-02 19:49, Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer wrote: >>> Interesting, but not a schedule. You already knew the pid... >> which you can get from the iplayer guide page: >> http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/guide/bbc/20141029 > Yes, but the point of the thread is finding ways to extract all this info > from the bbc (to build a searchable list of available programmes, which is > what get_iplayer's radio.cache and tv.cache files were) without scraping > complicated and - potentially - ever-changing internal format webpages. exactly, so we should take a look at how the iplayer webapp is working - the feeds will be gone sooner rather than later, the iplayer webapp is probably going to stay, so..
% http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/guide/bbc/20141029 | grep /iplayer/episode this will return all iplayer hrefs for 29 october, from which we can extract the PID and then access the JSON info. _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer