It's my understanding that GiP indexes TV programs via the schedules.
Somebody can correct me if I'm wrong on that, but it would seem to make
sense in this instance. S5E1 is on TV soon, so it shows up on the
schedule. S1E1 hasn't been shown since 2012, and GiP won't go back in
time by over 7 years every time you refresh it.
The fact that the BBC are making more and more box-sets and old programs
available means that as time goes by, the search in GiP will become less
and less reliable. The availability of programs on the iPlayer no
longer has a one-to-one mapping with what will be or has been on TV. If
the GiP search isn't going to catch up to that fact, it may as well just
be removed.
Regards,
James Scholes
On 17/02/2020 at 8:22 am, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi,
I recently noticed S05E01 of ‘Last Tango in Halifax’ had been added to
the available programs. It's also returned by a search.
$ ./get_iplayer --nopurge -e 31536000 --future tango
get_iplayer v3.22, Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Phil Lewis
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details use
--warranty.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under
certain
conditions; use --conditions for details.
Matches:
5621: Last Tango in Halifax: Series 5 - Episode 1, BBC One, m000fs1z
INFO: 1 matching programmes
$
Note the old version, v3.22. Perhaps that's related to my problem.
Poking about the iPlayer web site, I see many of the previous episodes
are available, e.g. S01E01 at https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01p1q71
says ‘Watch now’. Why isn't it found by the search above?
‘./get_iplayer --no-purge --future -e 31536000 -i --pid b01p1q71’
finds it and also suggests it's available for a while.
expires: in 348 days 22 hours (2021-01-30T12:00:00+00:00)
When I refresh, I do it twice, the first time with ‘--refresh
--refresh-limit-tv=30’ and the second with ‘--refresh --refresh-future’.
I'm happy to update my get_iplayer and re-apply/re-edit my patches, but
would like to hear that the search returns copious episodes for another
first before bothering. And if it doesn't, does anyone here know why
not?
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