BobSammers wrote: > I see that there is a JSON feed of data from the > "www.bbc.co.uk/programmes" stem (as pointed out in the maintenance > message) but all the radio stations and TV channels are mixed together > with no obvious way of filtering. Nor can I seem to get JSON data for > the list of episodes there (although the error messages for > [hash]/episodes/player.xml and [hash]/episodes/player.json are > different, the latter being a 404 rather than the maintenance "not here > any longer" message). I assume this is therefore of limited use.
The "programmes" feed is part of the old obsolete APIs (see http://www.bbc.co.uk/developer/technology/apis.html ) which BBC is slowly being killed as they migrate their own system from it. The BBC encouraged developers to use the various APIs and then killed them off one by one as something new and shiny came along - leaving disillusioned developers. > Out of interest, presumably it is straightforward to start a programme > playing once the hash (seems to be called "pid" in the JSON) is known > (presumably, in fact, the only way)? > > Yes and No. Programmed are identified by the vpid (not pid) but vpid > can be a brand, a channel and lots of other things (check out BBC > programme onology - http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies - they love to > spend time creating and talking about models - I think this is why their > last media system development collapsed costing millions). To convert a > vpid to a playable URL can vary over time, the source and age (i.e. > archive or recent) of the programs . > > > > > I'm wondering about the (admittedly manual and less user friendly) > > process of finding the programme of interest using the BBC website and > > then feeding the pid into Extras (or iPlayer) to start it playing. It's > > not very good, but at the moment there is no way at all, unless I've > > missed something, of playing anything that has not been on in the last > > week.> > > There is - it is called Nitro but mere mortals cannot use it > https://developer.bbc.co.uk/nitro ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=72709 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
