RE: [backstage] API into iPlayer content

2010-09-29 Thread Anthony McKale
cough cough for all scheduling info i would recommend /programmes a excellent source of data, and all other projects by the now defunct A&M department http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/developers for iplayer there's not really as open focused (tries not to swear but coughs alot) it's uses bbc on

RE: [backstage] API into iPlayer content

2010-09-29 Thread Alex Cockell
Ok... Now the Big Question. Asked by Paul Jakma, Dink and LOADS of open source devs... How do FOSS developers get BBC Dev certificates? So that fully legit plugins etc get greenlighted? Also, could this process be made public? And who was the IDIOT who made the decision to lock out independen

RE: [backstage] API into iPlayer content

2010-09-29 Thread Andrew Bowden
Well BBC dev certs tend to give the holder huge amounts of access over our internal wikis, bug tracking systems and more! So don't take it personally! From: owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk [mailto:owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk] On Behalf Of Alex Cock

Re: [backstage] API into iPlayer content

2010-09-29 Thread Mo McRoberts
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 12:18, Andrew Bowden wrote: > Well BBC dev certs tend to give the holder huge amounts of access over our > internal wikis, bug tracking systems and more!  So don't take it personally! I think the question Alex is gunning for is: What is the process by which an independent

RE: [backstage] API into iPlayer content

2010-09-29 Thread Andrew Bowden
> On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 12:18, Andrew Bowden > wrote: > > Well BBC dev certs tend to give the holder huge amounts of > access over > > our internal wikis, bug tracking systems and more!  So > don't take it personally! > > I think the question Alex is gunning for is: > > What is the process

Re: [backstage] API into iPlayer content

2010-09-29 Thread Stephen Jolly
On 29 Sep 2010, at 12:23, Mo McRoberts wrote: > On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 12:18, Andrew Bowden wrote: >> Well BBC dev certs tend to give the holder huge amounts of access over our >> internal wikis, bug tracking systems and more! So don't take it personally! > > I think the question Alex is gunnin

Re: [backstage] API into iPlayer content

2010-09-29 Thread David Dorward
On 29 Sep 2010, at 12:46, Stephen Jolly wrote: > I suspect that there is currently no way for third parties to get access to > iPlayer *content* without providing satisfactory guarantees that the content > will only be used in certain specific ways. Not least because the BBC has agreements about

Re: [backstage] API into iPlayer content

2010-09-29 Thread Alex Cockell
- Original message - > On 29 Sep 2010, at 12:23, Mo McRoberts wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 12:18, Andrew Bowden > > wrote: > > > Well BBC dev certs tend to give the holder huge amounts of access > > > over our internal wikis, bug tracking systems and more!  So don't > > > take it pe

Re: [backstage] API into iPlayer content

2010-09-29 Thread Mo McRoberts
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 12:46, Stephen Jolly wrote: > I suspect that there is currently no way for third parties to get access to > iPlayer *content* without providing satisfactory guarantees that the content > will only be used in certain specific ways.  I also suspect that *by > definition*,

RE: [backstage] API into iPlayer content

2010-09-29 Thread Anthony McKale
yah the feeds aren't https/firewall protected so i'm guessing no one should mind or at least it'll be a lesson to them if they didn't want folks accessing them -Original Message- From: owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk on behalf of Andrew Bowden Sent: Wed 9/29/2010 12:36 PM To: backstage@lis

Re: [backstage] API into iPlayer content

2010-09-29 Thread Mo McRoberts
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 14:23, Anthony McKale wrote: > yah the feeds aren't https/firewall protected so i'm guessing no one should > mind > or at least it'll be a lesson to them if they didn't want folks accessing > them If memory serves either the EMP SWF itself or the supporting JS makes use of

RE: [backstage] API into iPlayer content

2010-09-29 Thread Anthony McKale
it uses some of them, but iplayer it's self is created from them too -Original Message- From: owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk on behalf of Mo McRoberts Sent: Wed 9/29/2010 2:52 PM To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] API into iPlayer content On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 14:2