> If anyone else applied for a Nitro key recently, have you got the same email? > Doesn't look good, eh? A far cry from the initial enthusiastic "nitro is the future" > press releases. > Good job I didn't actually spend weeks building anything with it in the end, eh?
To be fair to the BBC, the Nitro web pages do say that it is closed to the BBC at this point. The email from David Beaton says that the Apigee developer key is being revoked. It doesn't mention a Nitro key. I don't think that anyone outside the BBC has received a Nitro key yet. From other blogs I've read, their priority is BBC then equipment partners then the general public. That allows them to ensure that the APIs are solid as they gradually roll out the service. Personally, I do think that a way could be found to write some software that used Nitro in an approved manner. The software would be somewhat simple in functionality, e.g. give it some search terms then it would spit out any URLs for programmes that correspond to the search terms. A somewhat limited function but one that shouldn't (in theory) be in breach of Nitro terms of use. The URLs then could be fed into a second piece of software that doesn't interact with Nitro itself but does a job similar to get_iplayer but without all of the need for caching, etc. Regards Philip _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
