I just noticed that if I have --pid-cursive in the command line, gip will cheerfully pickup a single episode program. Bug or feature?
On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 4:04 PM, Doug Faunt N6TQS +1-510-717-1197 <dougfa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks. That means it's a "feature", I guess. It's not a big deal, I > can always add --pid-recursive if I'm getting a series. > But up through 2.99, having it in my options file was more convenient > than adding it on a case-by-case basis. > > And that's not a postcode, it's my callsign. And why not put in my > telephone number? > best, doug > > > On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 2:58 PM, Vangelis forthnet > <northmed...@the.forthnet.gr> wrote: >> On Thu May 4 14:12:59 BST 2017, Doug Faunt wrote: >>> >>> I hope that signature is gone. >> >> >> Yes it is... Many thanks...(though, TBH, I can't figure out why you need to >> share with the rest of the world your postcode and telephone number...LOL). >> >>> Here's an example of not working with pidrecursive in options file and >>> then working after removal. >> >> >> Why must you have "pidrecursive 1" inside your options file? The >> "--pid-recersive" switch was intended to be only used in conjuction with >> brand/series PIDs; b05nt1vb is just an episode PID, so I'd say what you get >> is to be expected... >> In fact, if you manually try to load >> http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05nt1vb/episodes/player?page=1 >> >> in a browser, you'll get a "Sorry, that page was not found" error... >> >> With the XML feeds now permanently removed, GiP 3.00 relies only to >> webscraping to parse brand/series PIDs. In fact, recursive downloading was >> unavailable after the removal of XML feeds, since the JSON ones do not >> provide such function, but was added (through XML page parsing) in the >> following commit: >> https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/commit/1032f22 >> >> If, while the XML feeds were still alive, GiP 2.99- would not error out when >> fed an episode PID with "pidrecursive 1" present inside options, then I'd >> say that was a "bugged" behaviour, whereas the current one is "normal" >> Regards. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> get_iplayer mailing list >> get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org >> http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
