Re: [backstage-developer] New iPlayer RSS feeds
2008/7/9 Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Or perhaps just one big http://feeds.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/catalogue.xml with the whole structure in it? That'd work better :) -d - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk developer discussion group. To unsubscribe, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe backstage-developer [your email] as the message.
Re: [backstage-developer] New iPlayer RSS feeds
Alasdair,
I would do something like this...
?php
$arrChannels=array(radio1/programmes/schedules,1xtra/programmes/schedules,radio2/programmes/schedules,radio3/programmes/schedules,radio4/programmes/schedules/fm,
radio4/programmes/schedules/lw,fivelive/programmes/schedules,5livesportsextra/programmes/schedules,6music/programmes/schedules,bbc7/programmes/schedules,
worldservice/programmes/schedules,radioscotland/programmes/schedules/fm,bbchd/programmes/schedules,bbctwo/programmes/schedules/england,cbbc/programmes/schedules,
cbeebies/programmes/schedules,bbcthree/programmes/schedules,bbcfour/programmes/schedules,bbcnews/programmes/schedules,parliament/programmes/schedules,bbcone/programmes/schedules/london);
$dtToday = getdate();
$strD=$dtToday[mday]; if (($strD+0)10) $strD=0$strD;
$strM=$dtToday[mon]; if (($strM+0)10) $strM=0$strM;
$strY=$dtToday[year];
$strAllData=;
foreach ($arrChannels as $strChannel)
{
$strAllData.=file_get_contents(
http://www.bbc.co.uk/$strChannel/$strY/$strM/$strD.xml;);
}
echo $strAllData;
?
This gets the whole damn lot for the day in XML.
The code runs here:
http://ukfree.tv/igoogle/a/getalltodaysschedule.php5
2008/7/9 Alasdair King [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Brian, that's very helpful, thank-you. It's more work than I was
hoping to have to do, but I'll give it a shot!
Alasdair
On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 7:42 PM, Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Alasdair,
You can easily get the current iPlayer programmes by using the
/programmes
feeds.
You can get each channel's programme listing for each day by using, for
example:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcone/programmes/schedules/london/2008/07/09.xml
You will find in the XML an iplayer tag:
iplayer
audio_expires/
video_expires2008-07-16T04:39:00+01:00/video_expires
/iplayer
Which tells you if it's audio or video and when it expires.
Also in each broadcast item is a pid field, which you use to get to
the
iPlayer content. (not the PID in the series section). Just use a URL
starting http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/ with the PID on the end
to
get to the content.
The other TV URLs are:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctwo/programmes/schedules/england/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/programmes/schedules/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/programmes/schedules/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/programmes/schedules/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/programmes/schedules/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcnews/programmes/schedules/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/parliament/programmes/schedules/
I hope this helps.
2008/7/9 Alasdair King [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
(Apologies if you've heard this all before)
I write several very popular applications for blind people to allow
them to access BBC content easily:
http://www.webbie.org.uk/accessiblebbc/index.htm
http://www.webbie.org.uk/accessibleradio/index.htm
http://www.webbie.org.uk/accessiblebbciplayer/index.htm
They all work by screen-scraping and using webbrowser automation to
extract the simple information I need to be able to present blind
people with easy-to-use lists of available content, for example:
- All the radio programs available through Listen Again for a given
channel.
- All the TV programs available through iPlayer right now.
- All the live radio stations currently available.
I would LOVE, and have repeatedly requested to anyone kind enough to
listen, some kind of OPML/RSS/RDF source for the content. Then I could
stop my screen-scraping, which of course breaks when the BBC updates
their website (hardly ever, thanks guys!) and spend my limited
development time on a different open-source and free accessibility
project for blind people. I can only assume that some politics are
preventing this, since it doesn't seem a technically-challenging
problem.
Best wishes,
Dr. Alasdair King
WebbIE
http://www.webbie.org.uk
On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 10:50 AM, David Johnston [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
2008/7/9 Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Or perhaps just one big
http://feeds.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/catalogue.xml
with the whole structure in it?
That'd work better :)
-d
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Re: [backstage-developer] New iPlayer RSS feeds
Right, I've quickly knocked together version 1:
http://download.webbie.org.uk/test/BBCiPlayer2.exe
To my intense irritation, however, Flash has decided to stop working
in IE on my machine, and after an hour I've given up trying to get it
to work. So the app gets as far as displaying all the programmes from
the selected channel, but can't open the browser and start them (it's
hard for blind people to find and activate the Flash player, so I need
to open the browser, get to the Flash component and click it
automatically.)
Good start though. I can see this replacing some of my current applications.
Cheers!
Alasdair
On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 8:18 PM, Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Alasdair,
I would do something like this...
?php
$arrChannels=array(radio1/programmes/schedules,1xtra/programmes/schedules,radio2/programmes/schedules,radio3/programmes/schedules,radio4/programmes/schedules/fm,
radio4/programmes/schedules/lw,fivelive/programmes/schedules,5livesportsextra/programmes/schedules,6music/programmes/schedules,bbc7/programmes/schedules,
worldservice/programmes/schedules,radioscotland/programmes/schedules/fm,bbchd/programmes/schedules,bbctwo/programmes/schedules/england,cbbc/programmes/schedules,
cbeebies/programmes/schedules,bbcthree/programmes/schedules,bbcfour/programmes/schedules,bbcnews/programmes/schedules,parliament/programmes/schedules,bbcone/programmes/schedules/london);
$dtToday = getdate();
$strD=$dtToday[mday]; if (($strD+0)10) $strD=0$strD;
$strM=$dtToday[mon]; if (($strM+0)10) $strM=0$strM;
$strY=$dtToday[year];
$strAllData=;
foreach ($arrChannels as $strChannel)
{
$strAllData.=file_get_contents(http://www.bbc.co.uk/$strChannel/$strY/$strM/$strD.xml;);
}
echo $strAllData;
?
This gets the whole damn lot for the day in XML.
The code runs here:
http://ukfree.tv/igoogle/a/getalltodaysschedule.php5
2008/7/9 Alasdair King [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Brian, that's very helpful, thank-you. It's more work than I was
hoping to have to do, but I'll give it a shot!
Alasdair
On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 7:42 PM, Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Alasdair,
You can easily get the current iPlayer programmes by using the
/programmes
feeds.
You can get each channel's programme listing for each day by using, for
example:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcone/programmes/schedules/london/2008/07/09.xml
You will find in the XML an iplayer tag:
iplayer
audio_expires/
video_expires2008-07-16T04:39:00+01:00/video_expires
/iplayer
Which tells you if it's audio or video and when it expires.
Also in each broadcast item is a pid field, which you use to get to
the
iPlayer content. (not the PID in the series section). Just use a URL
starting http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/ with the PID on the end
to
get to the content.
The other TV URLs are:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctwo/programmes/schedules/england/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/programmes/schedules/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/programmes/schedules/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/programmes/schedules/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/programmes/schedules/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcnews/programmes/schedules/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/parliament/programmes/schedules/
I hope this helps.
2008/7/9 Alasdair King [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
(Apologies if you've heard this all before)
I write several very popular applications for blind people to allow
them to access BBC content easily:
http://www.webbie.org.uk/accessiblebbc/index.htm
http://www.webbie.org.uk/accessibleradio/index.htm
http://www.webbie.org.uk/accessiblebbciplayer/index.htm
They all work by screen-scraping and using webbrowser automation to
extract the simple information I need to be able to present blind
people with easy-to-use lists of available content, for example:
- All the radio programs available through Listen Again for a given
channel.
- All the TV programs available through iPlayer right now.
- All the live radio stations currently available.
I would LOVE, and have repeatedly requested to anyone kind enough to
listen, some kind of OPML/RSS/RDF source for the content. Then I could
stop my screen-scraping, which of course breaks when the BBC updates
their website (hardly ever, thanks guys!) and spend my limited
development time on a different open-source and free accessibility
project for blind people. I can only assume that some politics are
preventing this, since it doesn't seem a technically-challenging
problem.
Best wishes,
Dr. Alasdair King
WebbIE
http://www.webbie.org.uk
On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 10:50 AM, David Johnston [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
2008/7/9 Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Or perhaps just one big
http://feeds.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/catalogue.xml
with the whole structure in it?
That'd work better :)
-d
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Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk developer discussion group. To
