Vangelis, Thank you for your detailed and comprehensive answer. Exactly what I needed and very much appreciated!
Best wishes, James On 29 August 2016 at 02:23, Vangelis forthnet <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon Aug 29 01:29:16 BST 2016, James Herbert wrote: >> >> I know this may be a really silly question. Can get_iplayer be used to >> download videos such as the one at the bottom of this page? > > > Hello James and welcome to the list :-) > > Why do you reckon your question might be silly? The truth of the matter is > that the code maintainer of GiP has only left limited support for embedded > audio/video BBC clips, apart from content on the main iPlayer TV/Radio > pages. > (Some) BBC News & BBC Sports clips are still supported in the latest GiP > 2.96 but downloading those clips is now a deprecated feature and the coder > has stated that when the beeb breaks it again, no more effort will be > undertaken on his part to restore that broken GiP functionality... > >> http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/guides/z8d2mp3/revision/3 >> >> I've tried searching for that short code and URL using the web PVR but to >> no avail. > > > Since the "Bitesize" pages are not supported, what you need to realise is > that in order for GiP to fetch such a clip, it has to be fed the clip's PID; > unfortunately, this is not always a straightforward task... :-( > With flash installed, when you right-click the player you sometimes get the > video's PID; but not in this case: > p0233186 / programme / 0 > > The first string is the versionPID (vpid), it's still useful for downloading > streams but not with GiP; you would need the second string (after > "programme"), but in this case it's empty... > > A sure way to retrieve the clip's PID is by scavenging the Page Source > (accessing page source varies depending on browser used...). > Then search Page Source for "pid"; the first instance matched will give you > the clip's PID: > data-pid="p023317q" > > => --pid=p023317q > > Using the retrieved PID you can access that clip's main iplayer page: > http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p023317q > > You can use that URL in the Web PVR Manager's "Quick URL" input field to > download it or use the CLI to fetch (I don't use the GUI myself...): > get_iplayer --type=tv --pid=p023317q --modes=hlsbest > (fetches hlsvhigh1 - if you prefer flashmodes, use --modes=flashbest). > > Regards, Vangelis. > > _______________________________________________ > get_iplayer mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer -- James Herbert 07779 358514 _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
