On Tue Jul 24 15:13:06 BST 2018, Jim Lesurf wrote:
and they show a little 'clock' item and a text showing something
like '2d' which I take to mean 'available for another two days'.
... Wrong! "2d" designates the rough time (in calendar days)
that has passed since the audio | video clip ("excerpt" in your
terminology) was first made available (uploaded) on that
page (i.e. iPlayerRadio)
E.g. Prom 5, on Tue 17 Jul 2018
https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/ecc6gw =>
https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/ecc6gw/play/ahfxc8/p06f928w [5d]
Now, the correct pid is the final string, so --pid=p06f928w
Navigate to this URL
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06f928w
and you'll find the audio clip was uploaded on 20 July 2018
(ca. 5 days ago). You can always --info a pid to query its expiry date:
get_iplayer --type=radio --pid=p06f928w -i | FindStr expires =>
expires: in 80y 159 days 0 hours (2099-01-01T00:00:00+00:00)
Another example:
Prom 9, on Sat 21 Jul 2018
https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/emrz3d =>
https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/emrz3d/play/aw2mn3/b0bbp9kx [4d]
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bbp9kx
This audio excerpt was first broadcast on 21/07/2018, 19:30 BST,
if you --info the pid and search for "firstbcastrel" you'll find
firstbcastrel: 4 days 5 hours ago
The integer approximation of this time interval is 4days,
hence "4d" next to the clock sign; as you can see yourself,
this clip expires in 25 days, not in 4...
*But* if I try their PIDs I find GIP fails to fetch them.
Instead it tells me that the HAF modes aren't available.
Yet this didn't happen for the first few proms.
Questions here are why, and am I doing something wrong?
Are you sure you are passing the correct PID string to GiP?
Please post, in detail, non-working clips, and I'm sure other
competent list members (if not me again) can test and
advise further...
Cool greetings (to ease the UK heat, that is...)
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