staresy wrote: > Hi, > I use the BBCiplayer plugin often, it's very good, especially when used > via the material skin. One thing that would be useful would be if the > schedule for up-coming programs could be displayed somehow. What I mean > by this is currently I can listen live or on catch-up. If I am on > catch-up the days programming for a particular station up to the present > time is displayed, but is it possible to display the schedule for the > rest of the day? Of course I understand this won't be playable, but it > would be useful to know as currently I switch between the iplayer plugin > (to listen) and the BBC Sounds app for the schedule. > > I appreciate this is a bit out of scope for the plugin, but thought I'd > ask to see if it was possible and if it would be useful to other users.
The plugins used to have a 7 day schedule feature (it may have been an Extra feature) when the BBC maintained a public APIs to stations, programmes & schedules. However a few years BBC have withdrawn all public API and so reduced Extra to a minimal service with a single API (which is likely to be to be cut as well). All the APIs are now private. Screen scraping would take too much effort to maintain. However, I have been looking at the private API mainly to implement a backup should current plugins fail. The query about personalisation and now schedules made me look again at other parts of the API. IIRC the API used to be inaccessible but since since Personalisation for non UK users was supported by BBC in mid Sept 2020, I think more functions work (or possibly I've got better). Checking the schedule part of new API and the API seems to work. Example Radio 3 11-Oct-2020 https://rms.api.bbc.co.uk/v2/broadcasts/schedules/bbc_radio_three/2020-10-11 Long story short - schedules may be back on the menu. Two caveats: 1. BBC may lock the API once it gets used by "outsiders" 2. Need to find time to do a schedule menu amongst a few other updates ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109826 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
