Re: Information Overload on GiP Changes

2014-11-02 Thread Rob Dixon
On 01/11/2014 17:50, Nick wrote: On Sat, 01 Nov 2014 10:59:14 + Tom madtom1...@googlemail.com wrote: [...JS] - and like any other programming language you can write rubbish programs with it and as many people do, and everyone in the world can see it, it gets the blame when its really MS who

Re: Solutions to loss of RSS feed

2014-11-02 Thread Rob Dixon
On 01/11/2014 16:32, Budgie wrote: Hi Rob, Because I never use iPlayer I am not sure what functionality the BBC offer but I have found the GiP PVR function invaluable for grabbing radio programmes which I wish to hear but which are not necessarily on at specific times. I do not have time to

Re: Shell script to get PIDs from schedules

2014-11-02 Thread Chris Allison
Sorry, google switched back to html without me noticing, resending this. Peter, some good ideas there, but there is no need to scrape the web pages when all the schedule info you could possibly need is available in xml, json and yaml files at urls of this form:

Re: BBC Radio Downloads

2014-11-02 Thread Ian McDonald
I was away from home when this item started, and probably should not comment since I opted out of Get_iPlayer when I switched to a mac about three years ago and failed miserably to get the programme running on it. Thankfully a kind soul pointed me to Get iPlayer Automator, and I have been

RE: BBC Radio Downloads

2014-11-02 Thread Simon Morgan
-Original Message- From: get_iplayer [mailto:get_iplayer-boun...@lists.infradead.org] On Behalf Of Tim Errington Sent: 02 November 2014 01:04 To: get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org Subject: BBC Radio Downloads Hello, And firstly, thanks for all of your efforts so far that has

is get_iplayer dead?

2014-11-02 Thread Anthony Griffiths
hi, I used get_iplayer a couple of years ago but today I downloaded v2.87 on centos 6 and all I get is: BBC iPlayer feeds are no longer availableblah-de-blah...INFO: 0 Matching Programmes. what's the situation? is there a replacement program that works? thanks for any advice.

Re: is get_iplayer dead?

2014-11-02 Thread Roger Bell_West
On Sun, Nov 02, 2014 at 09:56:29AM +, Anthony Griffiths wrote: what's the situation? is there a replacement program that works? thanks for any advice. Please read recent list traffic where this has all been discussed at some length. If you're new to the list, you could start at

Re: Solutions to loss of RSS feed

2014-11-02 Thread Ian Sharp
Interesting... The BBC respondent states: Public access is limited, which, if intended, is stepping down a little from the idea of 'BBC only'. Ian. On 31 Oct 2014, at 23:55, David Lake (dlake) dl...@cisco.com wrote: Check the banner at the top of the page. Beta The BBC Developer

PVR List

2014-11-02 Thread Mike Casswell
I have a large number of series and programmes saved in my PVR List. Given the present circumstances, I would be grateful for any tips as to a method for the extraction and stripping of all the xxx_name_radio and _xx_name_radio entries to a csv file or other usable format. I'm using

searching the archives

2014-11-02 Thread Anthony Griffiths
can anyone tell me if there is a search function connected to the get_iplayer mailing list archives? I want to search the archives for info but all I can find so far is this: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/get_iplayer/ which imho is not much help.

Re: Shell script to get PIDs from schedules

2014-11-02 Thread Charles Johnson
On 02/11/14 08:52, Chris Allison wrote: Peter, some good ideas there, but there is no need to scrape the web pages when all the schedule info you could possibly need is available in xml, json and yaml files at urls of this form: www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/programmes/schedules/fm/this_week.json

Re: Solutions to loss of RSS feed

2014-11-02 Thread Budgie
On 02/11/14 06:42, Rob Dixon wrote: On 01/11/2014 16:32, Budgie wrote: Hi Rob, Because I never use iPlayer I am not sure what functionality the BBC offer but I have found the GiP PVR function invaluable for grabbing radio programmes which I wish to hear but which are not necessarily on at

Re: PVR List

2014-11-02 Thread J
Mike Casswell wrote: I have a large number of series and programmes saved in my PVR List. Given the present circumstances, I would be grateful for any tips as to a method for the extraction and stripping of all the xxx_name_radio and _xx_name_radio entries to a csv file or other

Re: searching the archives

2014-11-02 Thread Steven Maude
On 02/11/2014 11:13, Anthony Griffiths wrote: can anyone tell me if there is a search function connected to the get_iplayer mailing list archives? I want to search the archives for info but all I can find so far is this: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/get_iplayer/ which imho is not much

Re: Shell script to get PIDs from schedules

2014-11-02 Thread Roger Bell_West
On Sun, Nov 02, 2014 at 08:52:09AM +, Chris Allison wrote: some good ideas there, but there is no need to scrape the web pages when all the schedule info you could possibly need is available in xml, json and yaml files at urls of this form:

Updated version of Get_Iplayer

2014-11-02 Thread Steve
Ok, I got the new version Get_Iplayer.pl and all seems well again, I only use it for Radio 4 but all my PVR's jumped back into action and started downloading again - Great Work DinkyPumpkin! Is this a permanant fix, or will there be any more problems in the future? Steve

Re: PVR List

2014-11-02 Thread Mike Casswell
J wrote: The collection of simple text files are on my Win7 system at C:\Users\[username]\.get_iplayer\pvr Doh! I had assumed that the data was buried away in a file. Thanks for that. I can now make a list of important stuff and be sure that I don't miss anything. -- Mike Casswell

Re: Updated version of Get_Iplayer

2014-11-02 Thread Alan Milewczyk
On 02/11/2014 13:18, Steve wrote: Ok, I got the new version Get_Iplayer.pl and all seems well again, I only use it for Radio 4 but all my PVR's jumped back into action and started downloading again - Great Work DinkyPumpkin! Is this a permanant fix, or will there be any more problems in the

Re: Solutions to loss of RSS feed

2014-11-02 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Budgie aje...@errichel.co.uk wrote: If any of the team here knows whether the Favourites page can provide what I want please let me know. I have no idea... but I do remember reading a lot of complaints when the last big website revision happened, and the BBC didn't migrate all the info people

Re: Shell script to get PIDs from schedules

2014-11-02 Thread Terry L. Ridder
Hello I may have missed something , but where is there any mention of the www.bbc.co.uk website programme schedules going away? This will be sorted out. I am a happy camper, the Sunday morning programs came down as normal and pain levels are manageable today, so all is good with the world.

Re: Shell script to get PIDs from schedules

2014-11-02 Thread Roger Bell_West
On Sun, Nov 02, 2014 at 09:10:57AM -0600, Terry L. Ridder wrote: I may have missed something , but where is there any mention of the www.bbc.co.uk website programme schedules going away? As I said in the mail that you quoted, it's in the HTTP headers when you request the actual schedules. It's

Re: Updated version of Get_Iplayer

2014-11-02 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Alan Milewczyk a...@soulman1949.com wrote: I haven't seen one released since v2.79. Is that a typo? There's announcement messages posted to this mail list each time there's a new release. So - for the last few - v 2.85 on 6 Nov 2013 v 2.86 on 6 Apr 2014 v 2.87 on 19 Oct 2014 --

Re: Shell script to get PIDs from schedules

2014-11-02 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Terry L. Ridder artisticfo...@gmail.com wrote: Hello I may have missed something , but where is there any mention of the www.bbc.co.uk website programme schedules going away? You've missed this: if a computer program grabs website pages and 'scrapes' them, which is to say wades through all the

Re: Shell script to get PIDs from schedules

2014-11-02 Thread artisticforge .
Hello; checking with wireshark, only the json and xml versions have the warning. so yes, JSON and XML may go away at anytime but HTML will still be there. So parsing the HTML will not as easy as JSON or XML; the parsing should still provide the same results. So using the schedules is still a

Re: Shell script to get PIDs from schedules

2014-11-02 Thread artisticforge .
hello; JSON, XML and YAML, all have the following in the header sent by the server which most people would never see. HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: Apache Content-Type: application/x-yaml Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * X-PAL-Host: pal131.telhc.bbc.co.uk:80 X-UA-Compatible: IE=edge

Pids not

2014-11-02 Thread Computing
Hi, I'm trying to download the Tony Hancock bits. I've tried get_iplayer --type=radio --output=Hancock --radiomode=best --get --pid=b009t2ld --pid-recursive --force but it does not save any files, but generates the following message at the start. get_iplayer 2.87-3-g0ce62ba-ppa19a,

Pids Not Downloading

2014-11-02 Thread Computing
Hi, I'm trying to download the Tony Hancock bits. I've tried get_iplayer --type=radio --output=Hancock --radiomode=best --get --pid=b009t2ld --pid-recursive --force but it does not save any files, but generates the following message at the start. get_iplayer 2.87-3-g0ce62ba-ppa19a,

Re: Updated version of Get_Iplayer

2014-11-02 Thread Alan Milewczyk
On 02/11/2014 15:19, Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer wrote: Alan Milewczyk a...@soulman1949.com wrote: I haven't seen one released since v2.79. Is that a typo? There's announcement messages posted to this mail list each time there's a new release. So - for the last few - v 2.85 on 6 Nov

Re: Pids not

2014-11-02 Thread artisticforge .
Hello the answer is simple. there are no episodes available. it is working exactly as it should. On Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 10:26 AM, Computing comput...@windcheetah.org.uk wrote: Hi, I'm trying to download the Tony Hancock bits. I've tried get_iplayer --type=radio --output=Hancock

Re: Pids Not Downloading

2014-11-02 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Computing comput...@windcheetah.org.uk wrote: Hi, I'm trying to download the Tony Hancock bits. I've had a quick explore of the BBC website and can't find any such programme listed there... So... what radio station, and what programme name? If there's no programme offered on the website for a

Re: Pids Not Downloading

2014-11-02 Thread artisticforge .
hello he is looking to bulk dowload hancock's half hour there are no episodes available. Hancock's Half Hour http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b009t2ld/episodes/guide On Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 10:58 AM, Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer jn.ml.gti...@wingsandbeaks.org.uk wrote: Computing

Re: Pids not

2014-11-02 Thread gerry smithson
You probably mean The Missing Hancocks http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04ly39j From: Computing comput...@windcheetah.org.uk To: get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org Sent: Sunday, 2 November 2014, 16:26 Subject: Pids not Hi, I'm trying to download the Tony Hancock

some insights and thoughts

2014-11-02 Thread artisticforge .
Hello I have been talking with a friend, who is a presenter on BBC Radio 4 Extra. about the changes at the BBC. For the past year I have noticed that changes have been made to provide information where program episodes may be purchased. Music programs have the Playlist detailing the music

Re: Shell script to get PIDs from schedules

2014-11-02 Thread Dirk Husemann
this one seems to work: % curl -v -v http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/js/episode/b04nhkz9 GET /iplayer/js/episode/b04nhkz9 HTTP/1.1 User-Agent: curl/7.37.1 Host: www.bbc.co.uk Accept: */* HTTP/1.1 200 OK * Server Apache is not blacklisted Server: Apache Content-Type: application/json Etag:

Re: some insights and thoughts

2014-11-02 Thread Tom
On 02/11/14 17:56, artisticforge . wrote: Hello I have been talking with a friend, who is a presenter on BBC Radio 4 Extra. about the changes at the BBC. For the past year I have noticed that changes have been made to provide information where program episodes may be purchased. Music programs

Re: Multiple pids - another way, in some cases

2014-11-02 Thread roadcone
On 02/11/14 00:18, Nick Payne wrote: That method doesn't seem to work for me - for TV, anyway. For example, BBC4 have a number of blues programs available in their archive (see ). If I try to use the p01m79bn pid, I get the following: get_iplayer --pid=p01m79bn --pid-recursive --output

Re: Shell script to get PIDs from schedules

2014-11-02 Thread Sharon Kimble
Charles Johnson cehjohn...@gmail.com writes: On 02/11/14 08:52, Chris Allison wrote: Peter, some good ideas there, but there is no need to scrape the web pages when all the schedule info you could possibly need is available in xml, json and yaml files at urls of this form:

Re: Shell script to get PIDs from schedules

2014-11-02 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Dirk Husemann dirk+getipla...@d2h.net wrote: this one seems to work: % curl -v -v http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/js/episode/b04nhkz9 GET /iplayer/js/episode/b04nhkz9 HTTP/1.1 Interesting, but not a schedule. You already knew the pid... -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

Re: Multiple pids - another way, in some cases

2014-11-02 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
roadcone roadc...@gmx.com wrote: ... then it tells me that they are all in my download history. You'd need to code --force to stop get_iplayer from stopping because it found (from the download history) that you've already downloaded those items. -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

Re: Shell script to get PIDs from schedules

2014-11-02 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Sharon Kimble boudic...@skimble.plus.com wrote: Thanks for this Charles. With your last command --8---cut here---start-8--- wget -q -O - http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/programmes/schedules/fm/this_week.json | jq '.[] | .[] | .[] | .[] | .programme as $P |

Re: Shell script to get PIDs from schedules

2014-11-02 Thread Dirk Husemann
On 2014-11-02 19:49, Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer wrote: Dirk Husemann dirk+getipla...@d2h.net wrote: this one seems to work: % curl -v -v http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/js/episode/b04nhkz9 GET /iplayer/js/episode/b04nhkz9 HTTP/1.1 Interesting, but not a schedule. You already knew the

Re: Shell script to get PIDs from schedules

2014-11-02 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Dirk Husemann dirk+getipla...@d2h.net wrote: On 2014-11-02 19:49, Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer wrote: Interesting, but not a schedule. You already knew the pid... which you can get from the iplayer guide page: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/guide/bbc/20141029 Yes, but the point of the thread

Re: Shell script to get PIDs from schedules

2014-11-02 Thread Charles Johnson
On 02/11/14 18:47, Sharon Kimble wrote: --8---cut here---start-8--- wget -q -O - http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/programmes/schedules/fm/this_week.json | jq '.[] | .[] | .[] | .[] | .programme as $P | $P.display_titles.title,$P.short_synopsis,$P.pid' | tail

Re: Shell script to get PIDs from schedules

2014-11-02 Thread Dirk Husemann
On 2014-11-02 20:22, Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer wrote: Dirk Husemann dirk+getipla...@d2h.net wrote: On 2014-11-02 19:49, Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer wrote: Interesting, but not a schedule. You already knew the pid... which you can get from the iplayer guide page:

Re: We should be grateful ( was Re: A message from Auntie )

2014-11-02 Thread Peter S Kirk
On 1 Nov 2014 at 22:27, Owen Smith Owen Smith owen.sm...@cantab.net wrote: This is a problem the BBC should have foreseen. As soon as you put software into embedded devices like TVs or PVRs, either you have to support it for at least 10 years or you will break someone's viewing experience.

Pids Not Downloading

2014-11-02 Thread Computing
Hi, I'm sorry, I seem to have got the wrong end of the stick. Yes, various Hancock stuff downloads fine, but then I found --pid-recursive, that I'd never seen before, it looked like it could scoop up loads of Hancocks. Sorry again as this message has been posted under Pids not as well Martin

Pids Not

2014-11-02 Thread Computing
Hi, I'm sorry, I seem to have got the wrong end of the stick. Yes, various Hancock stuff downloads fine, but then I found --pid-recursive, that I'd never seen before, it looked like it could scoop up loads of Hancocks. Sorry again as this message has been posted under Pids Not Downloading as

Re: some insights and thoughts

2014-11-02 Thread Budgie
On 02/11/14 17:56, artisticforge . wrote: Hello I have been talking with a friend, who is a presenter on BBC Radio 4 Extra. about the changes at the BBC. For the past year I have noticed that changes have been made to provide information where program episodes may be purchased. Music programs

Re: some insights and thoughts

2014-11-02 Thread Peter S Kirk
On 2 Nov 2014 at 22:43, Budgie Budgie aje...@errichel.co.uk wrote: There are likely to be an increasing number of younger viewers who will however latch on to the time shift loophole and cease paying for licence. I remember when I was a student, friends using similar dodges to avoid

[ANN] get_iplayer 2.89 released

2014-11-02 Thread dinkypumpkin
get_iplayer 2.88 was withdrawn due to a bug found after it was released for Homebrew. v2.89 is the successor to v2.87. Release notes here: https://github.com/dinkypumpkin/get_iplayer/wiki/release289 ___ get_iplayer mailing list

Re: some insights and thoughts

2014-11-02 Thread Peter Corlett
On Sun, Nov 02, 2014 at 11:56:38AM -0600, artisticforge . wrote: [...] There are numerous other examples. Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere, Ben Moor's Undone series, EarthSearch series 1 2, The Paul Temple series, The Charles Paris Mysteries, and the Lord Peter Wimsey series, Doctor Who Audio Books

Re: We should be grateful ( was Re: A message from Auntie )

2014-11-02 Thread artisticforge .
Hello; I remember valves (tubes) and discrete transistors. ;-) best wireless i had was valves (tubes) On Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 2:55 PM, Peter S Kirk peter.k...@isauk.biz wrote: On 1 Nov 2014 at 22:27, Owen Smith Owen Smith owen.sm...@cantab.net wrote: This is a problem the BBC should have

Re: confirm excessive bounces

2014-11-02 Thread Roger Bell_West
On Sun, Nov 02, 2014 at 11:18:56PM +, Mable Syrup wrote: Anyone any suggestions as to what in particular is being bounced and if there's any way I can tell yahoo not to bounce? Very quickly because it's off-topic: probably the daft Yahoo DMARC policy (see

Re: [ANN] get_iplayer 2.89 released

2014-11-02 Thread SquarePenguin
On 2 Nov 2014, at 23:06, dinkypumpkin wrote: get_iplayer 2.88 was withdrawn due to a bug found after it was released for Homebrew. v2.89 is the successor to v2.87. Release notes here: https://github.com/dinkypumpkin/get_iplayer/wiki/release289 Great work, thanks for your efforts.

Re: [ANN] get_iplayer 2.89 released

2014-11-02 Thread Paul Phillips
Cache loaded in seconds. I tried radio and tv shows, worked flawlessly. This is on Windows/web pvr A big thank you for fixing it so quickly. On 2 November 2014 23:06, dinkypumpkin dinkypump...@gmail.com wrote: get_iplayer 2.88 was withdrawn due to a bug found after it was released for

duplicated pid

2014-11-02 Thread Mable Syrup
So, trying to download in search of professor moriarty: (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0080rwc) get_iplayer --get --type=radio --pid b0080rwc and get error message INFO: Sherlock Holmes - The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger - Sherlock Holmes - The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger (b0080rwc)

Re: [ANN] get_iplayer 2.89 released

2014-11-02 Thread Madeline
I've often wondered, and I suspect you're now in a position to know, when you walk on water, do your feet still get wet? Excellent stuff ... I am in awe. On Mon, Nov 3, 2014, at 12:06 PM, dinkypumpkin wrote: get_iplayer 2.88 was withdrawn due to a bug found after it was released for Homebrew.

Re: [ANN] get_iplayer 2.89 released

2014-11-02 Thread Owen Smith
I'm intrigued about the lack of episode thumbnails for radio. Looking in my iPlayer plugin for Logitech Media Server (aka Squeezebox Server) there are episode thumbnails shown next to all episodes bar one on a random selection of days of Radio 3. This is public domain third party code, nothing

Windows Installer: AtomicParsley download location changed due to download failure

2014-11-02 Thread dinkypumpkin
BitBucket borked the AtomicParsley download used by the Windows installer. It looks like they've blocked it unless you download from their site, but I'm not sure what is going on. It could just be some temporary problem. They've broken the download before, so I've relocated AtomicParsley