Re: [backstage] Date-specific iPlayer RSS feeds

2008-08-27 Thread Brian Butterworth
Andy, The only problem with the search on iPlayer is that it's just too good. If you try Comedy as a search term, it takes you directly to the Category: Comedy page, for example. The only problem is that the results, even if scraped still don't have enough information to sort them into the

Re: [backstage] Date-specific iPlayer RSS feeds

2008-08-27 Thread David Johnston
2008/8/27 Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED]: You can always, by the way, use: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/PID (eg http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b008pbnv ) to get the information for a programme's PID, but you don't seem to be able to use the .xml extension to get the information as

[backstage] A few interesting bits...

2008-08-27 Thread Brian Butterworth
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/digitalcontent/2008/08/new_music_tools_from_bbc_backs.html - mention of Chris' rather brilliant Now Playing http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7582197.stm - seems The Internet must include Flash and Java, according to the ASA, of all people. Just wondered what

Re: [backstage] A few interesting bits...

2008-08-27 Thread Dave Crossland
2008/8/27 Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7582197.stm - seems The Internet must include Flash and Java, according to the ASA, of all people. Just wondered what Dave C makes of it... The BBC journalist makes the important distinction between free