On Tue Jun 30 02:02:11 BST 2015, I wrote:
get_iplayer --type=podcast "The Early Music Show"
yields:
(humongous snip)
INFO: 177 Matching Programmes
(snip)
These 177 "The Early Music Show" podcasts
(MP3 files) are the ones that can be individually
manually downloaded (in the UK) from:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006tn49/episodes/downloads
(snip)
as for the podcast, it might simply boil down to a manual
download from the above referenced link.
(snip)
the latest 2015 podcast is dated Sun 26 Apr 2015
(pid=b05s3cjc).
Hi...
After examining Budgie's original issue, I was faced
with a GiP issue myself:
Trying to fetch via GiP the podcast I mentioned
(The Early Music Show: Medieval Dance, 26/04/2015)
I found that simply issuing:
get_iplayer --type=podcast "Medieval Dance"
or even
get_iplayer --type=podcast "The Early Music Show - Medieval Dance"
finds nothing :-(
As I am really dumb when it comes to regex, can one of you
suggest a GiP command that would fetch this specific podcast?
This is win32 here, so no grep/sed/awk please...
What I did myself was first issue:
get_iplayer --type=podcast "The Early Music Show"
and then used the "Find" feature of the command prompt
window to search for "Medieval Dance" (without quotes) -
this got me to line:
222118: The Early Music Show - Medieval Dance, Sun, 26 Apr 2015 01:00:00
+0100,
BBC Radio 3, Music
so then it was a case of:
get_iplayer --type=podcast 222118 -g --no-tag
(side note: I use "--no-tag" because BBC podcast files already come
with a perfectly fine tag/thumbnail, and GiP seems to mess with this tag by
default...)
On Tue Jun 30 11:48:28 BST 2015, George Eycott wrote:
The BBC changed their podcast system a few weeks ago
(snip)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/faqs/podcast_changes_2015
(snip)
http://iplayerhelp.external.bbc.co.uk/help/playing_radio_progs/podcast_changes
Many thanks George for those links!
Link 1:
The RSS feeds you use to subscribe to podcasts have been redirected to new
URLs.
This is to make sure your existing podcast series subscriptions still
work.
(snip)
some podcast management apps/clients will download
all the existing podcast episodes for each series subscribed.
It's due to how the apps behave with the RSS feed
(used for subscribing to a programme) being redirected.
GiP is relying upon the old podcast (RSS?) feeds, so
it would appear it's acting like the aforementioned
podcast management apps/clients and causes
Budgie the issue he reported...
I am unfamiliar with the podcast section of the GiP code,
so this is just an educated guess on my part...
Link2:
Podcast file names are created from the unique code
that we use to identify all BBC Programmes and digital content,
(snip)
A current example of a Podcast file name is 'p02swmcq.mp3'
After the recent BBC changes, every podcast file is treated as
just another form of radio (audio) offer from the beeb and is hence
assigned a unique PID (just if it were a radio/TV programme on iplayer).
My sample "Medieval Dance" podcast has pid=b05s3cjc
however, GiP currently has no support for downloading
podcasts via the --pid method...
My podcast's page is:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05s3cjc
and there's a direct DL link there, but it would be nice if
get_iplayer --type=podcast --pid=b05s3cjc --no-tag
worked...
To this effect, I've explored a bit further the related beeb code:
The "PID.xml" page that already GiP 2.93+ parses by default
to harvest vpid and other metadata is indeed the source for
the podcast's vPID:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05s3cjc.xml =>
<version
canonical="0"><pid>p02slpz1</pid><duration>3020</duration><types><type>Podcast
version</type></types></version>
=> vpid=p02slpz1
Then, one should use the mediaselector/5 API URL
with a new mediaset=audio-nondrm-download to
get access to the actual download links:
http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/5/select/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/vpid/p02slpz1
(2 CDNs, Akamai & Limelight).
Shouldn't be that hard to patch GiP's code,
if this feature were to be implemented...
(DP, your thoughts?
Nigel Taylor, maybe your perl skills?)
And I suspect "audio-nondrm-download" is a prelude to
"audio-drm-download", the encrypted audio downloads
the BBC announced would've been available in spring of 2014!
Regards,
Vangelis.
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