From: Ralph Corderoy
Sent: Monday, August 21, 2017 14:04
I've lost the plot a bit. You're saying that your tv.cache contains all
the episodes of _Quacks_ and that you can download any of them now if
you explicitly give the --pid $pid? Episode two here says it's
available tomorrow, but if it could be downloaded now then you need a
way to ignore that `available' time.
Hi Ralph
Not quite. A programme does not need to be in the cache to be downloaded.
Some metadata may not be available, but most of the time get_iplayer can
retrieve it from other sources. In this case I can download the episodes
one at a time using the episode PIDs. I can download all the episodes using
the series PID and --pid-recursive.
If I don't know how to find PIDs, or more particularly how to
use --pid-recursive, or just want get_iplayer to do the work for me, I would
use a search string.
get_iplayer quacks --type tv
At present without any change in the date that will only find the first
episode. If I look in tv.cache.old, which is the state of the cache before
I changed the date this morning, there is only one occurrence of "Quacks".
If I look in tv.cache, refreshed after changing the date to 23 August, there
are two occurrences of "Quacks" for the first two episodes.
If I now do the same search get_iplayer finds the first 2 episodes but not
all 6.
The first question is whether it is safe to change the date to 5 weeks
ahead. I suspect the answer is No.
The next question is whether get_iplayer supports programmes' being made
available in the iPlayer up to 6 weeks before broadcast or whether that is a
request for a new feature.
The third question is if get_iplayer does already support it, what the
commands are.
Best wishes
Richard
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