Re: Loss of XML feeds...

2017-03-17 Thread Mike Casswell
> > I understand (to a degree at least) the significance of this data for > > the users of get_iplayer. > > > > What is its significance from the BBC's perspective? For what purpose > > do they make it available? > > This blog post has some details: > > http://smethur.st/posts/176135860 > >

Re: Loss of XML feeds...

2017-03-16 Thread James Scholes
Mike Casswell wrote: I understand (to a degree at least) the significance of this data for the users of get_iplayer. What is its significance from the BBC's perspective? For what purpose do they make it available? This blog post has some details: http://smethur.st/posts/176135860 The BBC

Re: Loss of XML feeds...

2017-03-16 Thread Mike Casswell
I understand (to a degree at least) the significance of this data for the users of get_iplayer. What is its significance from the BBC's perspective? For what purpose do they make it available? -- Mike Casswell ___ get_iplayer mailing list

Re: Loss of XML feeds...

2017-03-14 Thread artisticforge .
hello it was actually reasonable for time. I just finished running my modified refresh cache shell script. Granted i excluded regional & local. So it was not a true apple/apple test. it will limp along until the BBC finally puts it down, so to speak. On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 2:52 AM, Alan

Re: Loss of XML feeds...

2017-03-14 Thread Alan Milewczyk
On 14/03/2017 14:18, Vangelis forthnet wrote: For "academic" reasons, perl get_iplayer-299.pl --type=tv -f --force --ybbcy --refresh-exclude="BBCAlba,BBC Parliament,S4C,CBeebies" took 12min to build a tv.cache of 1086 entries (YMMV); local channels are ignored by default. --ybbcy switch

Re: Loss of XML feeds...

2017-03-14 Thread Vangelis forthnet
[Apologies, but my mailer has, mysteriously so, malformatted the last part of my previous post; reposting for clarity:] Of course the maintainer is fully aware of its existence, but has withheld reference to it because it is to be used only as a last resort; it involves web-scraping HTML pages

Loss of XML feeds...

2017-03-14 Thread Vangelis forthnet
... Of course this is no news for those of you frequenting recently the Support Forums https://squarepenguin.co.uk/forums/thread-1193.html and this mailing list http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/get_iplayer/2017-March/010310.html A github issue has been created by the code maintainer: