Re: Format of options file

2018-03-06 Thread rob . dixon
of `split ' ', $_` then there is nothing to do: CR is considered to be a whitespace character and will be removed from the fields There are clearly variations on this idea, but it shouldn't be hard to resolve from here Can someone please tell me whether I have answered the original question, or if I'm miles off?

Re: Synology

2015-02-09 Thread Rob Dixon
On 09/02/2015 21:09, Dennis Smith wrote: Hi guys, Anyone know if there is an easy way to install Get_iPlayer to my Synology NAS, even if all I get is a basic web interface with E.G. nearly blank webpage to look at and a box to paste a URL into and a download button, defaulting to a dedicated

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: Information Overload on GiP Changes

2014-11-01 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

2014-10-31 Thread Rob Dixon
The Nitro API is freely available to anyone who applies for a licence. There would be no reverse engineering involved. On 31/10/2014 21:38, Ian Macdonald wrote: I have always just used the command line, but the last option seems best, it depends on how much effort is required to reverse

Re: Solutions to loss of RSS feed

2014-10-31 Thread Rob Dixon
On 31/10/2014 23:42, Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer wrote: Ian Macdonald ianma...@gmail.com wrote: I have always just used the command line, but the last option seems best, it depends on how much effort is required to reverse engineer the API... The problem isn't the API, so far as I

Re: Solutions to loss of RSS feed

2014-10-31 Thread Rob Dixon
On 31/10/2014 23:12, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2014/10/31 21:21, Rob Dixon wrote: - Write a new application that uses the Nitro API, ostensibly to provide a different and more flexible way of viewing the BBC schedule, but capable of exporting the information for use in get_iplayer. This could

Re: Solutions to loss of RSS feed

2014-10-31 Thread Rob Dixon
On 31/10/2014 23:18, David Woodhouse wrote: Whether or not this could export something that would be useful to get_iplayer, it would be useful in itself. I've certainly used get_iplayer a few times to look for programmes of interest because the search facilities areslightly better than the

Re: Solutions to loss of RSS feed

2014-10-31 Thread Rob Dixon
On 31/10/2014 23:24, Budgie wrote: On 31/10/14 21:21, Rob Dixon wrote: - Write a new application that uses the Nitro API, ostensibly to provide a different and more flexible way of viewing the BBC schedule, but capable of exporting the information for use in get_iplayer. This could even

Re: Solutions to loss of RSS feed

2014-10-31 Thread Rob Dixon
On 31/10/2014 23:55, David Lake (dlake) wrote: Check the banner at the top of the page. Beta The BBC Developer site is currently open for registration to BBC Employees. Account requests from other users are not currently being activated. Please check back soon for more info. Then check

Re: Information Overload on GiP Changes

2014-10-31 Thread Rob Dixon
On 31/10/2014 23:11, Budgie wrote: Also I see references to JSON. OK, JavaScript Object Notation but what does it mean to me and where does it fit in with GiP and BBC. I thought, in my ignorance, that JavaScript was going the way of the brown ball. Certainly I get grave warnings when it is

Re: Solutions to loss of RSS feed

2014-10-31 Thread Rob Dixon
On 01/11/2014 00:03, Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer wrote: On all three of: https://developer.bbc.co.uk/nitro https://developer.bbc.co.uk/nitropubliclicence https://developer.bbc.co.uk/content/nitro-quickstart I get a banner across the top of the page that says: The BBC Developer site is

Re: Proof-of-concept scraper for iPlayer web frontend TV data to JSON

2014-10-31 Thread Rob Dixon
On 01/11/2014 00:27, dinkypumpkin wrote: I tried this same approach, but it foundered on radio programmes. There is just too much stuff there. It's soul-crushingly slow to scrape the iPlayer Radio site, at least for a desktop cache. It would be great to have everything available on iPlayer

Re: Proof-of-concept scraper for iPlayer web frontend TV data to JSON

2014-10-31 Thread Rob Dixon
On 01/11/2014 01:29, Steven Maude wrote: At a glance, robots.txt doesn't seem to disallow accessing the sections needed. In the terms of use, there is this though: (d) You agree to use BBC Online Services and access, download, view and/or listen to BBC Content as supplied to you by the BBC and

Re: Proof-of-concept scraper for iPlayer web frontend TV data to JSON

2014-10-31 Thread Rob Dixon
On 01/11/2014 00:27, dinkypumpkin wrote: On 31/10/2014 00:08, Steven Maude wrote: https://github.com/StevenMaude/nitroradical Thanks for that. From underneath 10,000 lines of Perl I gaze longingly at that lovely strictly-indented, sigil-less Python. I also think there could be some mileage

Re: Banned From Posting?

2014-07-31 Thread Rob Dixon
On 31/07/2014 19:20, Shevek wrote: On 31 July 2014 17:37, Chris J Brady chrisjbr...@yahoo.com wrote: My last post was bounced back with a suspicious header. Yet anothersnafu due to Yahoo I suppose. CJB. Chris, also ALL your emails to the group end up in my Spam folder (Gmail) Shevek, I

Re: Subtitles Round 3

2013-09-28 Thread Rob Dixon
On 28/09/2013 00:27, dinkypumpkin wrote: I wasn't satisfied by my earlier attempt at subtitles, so I've had another go. This time I decided to attack the problem the get_iplayer way: Add more options! Although that's not the choice I would have made, your decisions so far have created a

Re: Changed subtitle format

2013-09-23 Thread Rob Dixon
On 23/09/2013 17:15, dinkypumpkin wrote: On 23/09/2013 06:39, Jonathan Larmour wrote: I'm attaching a patch which does fix the problem, although I'm sure someone with better perl skills than me (which is most people, as I don't really use perl) can make it a bit better. Thanks. I've trimmed

Re: Changed subtitle format

2013-09-23 Thread Rob Dixon
On 23/09/2013 22:42, Jonathan Larmour wrote: I'm attaching a, hopefully final, patch. New! Now with comments! Thanks for doing this Jonathan. Your code looks right, for what that's worth. Once thing this thread has brought to my attention is that the srt files that get_iplayer produces have

Re: Changed subtitle format

2013-09-23 Thread Rob Dixon
On 23/09/2013 23:05, dinkypumpkin wrote: On 23/09/2013 22:52, Rob Dixon wrote: One thing this thread has brought to my attention is that the srt files that get_iplayer produces have each subtitle compacted into a single line. That doesn't seem like a good idea to me, and I wonder if that's

Re: Changed subtitle format

2013-09-23 Thread Rob Dixon
On 24/09/2013 00:44, dinkypumpkin wrote: On 23/09/2013 23:16, Rob Dixon wrote: Unfortunately, that's not how the subtitles arrive from the Beeb. There are line breaks within a single speaker's lines, and sometimes no line break or other structural change to demarcate the transition

Re: Recording Proms 2013 Highlights

2013-09-08 Thread Rob Dixon
On 08/09/2013 12:45, tgil...@mygilkes.co.uk wrote: Does anybody know how to record the Proms 2013 highlights from here :- http://www.bbc.co.uk/events/edrnc8 e.g. :- 2013 BBC Proms Montage http://www.bbc.co.uk/events/edrnc8/videos/p00yjyg2#p01g86k6 If you go into any of the *subsections*

Re: can someone point me to the list instructions please ...

2013-08-31 Thread Rob Dixon
On 30/08/2013 23:10, David Woodhouse wrote: On Fri, 2013-08-30 at 13:59 +0100, Mable Syrup wrote: I'm sure there must be something, but I can't find it. I want to reply to different items in a thread in a manner that preserves the threading. I don't really understand why this is an issue.

Re: can someone point me to the list instructions please ...

2013-08-31 Thread Rob Dixon
On 31/08/2013 22:09, David Woodhouse wrote: On Sat, 2013-08-31 at 20:46 +0100, Rob Dixon wrote: I'm sorry David, but I find this very offensive. Before we continue, I would ask you to watch this video: http://www.snotr.com/video/8285/Steve_Hughes_-_Offended Watch it from 3:20 to 5:45

Re: can someone point me to the list instructions please ...

2013-08-31 Thread Rob Dixon
On 31/08/2013 23:48, Stuart Henderson wrote: As David is the list owner, I think it's reasonable for him to comment on list admin matters.. You are quite right. I was unaware of David's position as list owner and wouldn't have challenged his entitlement to say whatever he wants. My problem

Re: can someone point me to the list instructions please ...

2013-08-30 Thread Rob Dixon
On 30/08/2013 13:59, Mable Syrup wrote: I'm sure there must be something, but I can't find it. I want to reply to different items in a thread in a manner that preserves the threading. The correct thing to do depends on the mail client you are using. I see you are on the Yahoo Mail Web

Re: Problem with Series

2013-07-19 Thread Rob Dixon
On 19/07/2013 10:57, J K.Eason wrote: Using 2.83 on WinXP I've downloaded an episode of the A Series of Psychotic Episodes radio series with the following included in my options file: subdirformat nameshort The output directory that was created has been given the name A. Using --info, it

Re: Problem with Series

2013-07-19 Thread Rob Dixon
On 19/07/2013 11:10, Rob Dixon wrote: On 19/07/2013 10:57, J K.Eason wrote: Using 2.83 on WinXP I've downloaded an episode of the A Series of Psychotic Episodes radio series with the following included in my options file: subdirformat nameshort The output directory that was created has been

Re: Netiquette - bottom posting - outdated?

2013-07-19 Thread Rob Dixon
On 19/07/2013 06:19, Xtra wrote: Having read (and agreed) with many of the items in the http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer can I suggest however, that the requirement for bottom posting is out-dated? This requirement dates from 2003 and I believe that the world has has

Re: Problem with Series

2013-07-19 Thread Rob Dixon
On 19/07/2013 12:33, dinkypumpkin wrote: On 19/07/2013 11:58, Rob Dixon wrote: $prog-{nameshort} =~ s/:?\s*Series\s+.+?(:\s*|$)//i; A Series of Psychotic Episodes appears to be the only TV or radio programmeaffected. If anyone knows of another, reply here. That is the only current

Re: Problem with Series

2013-07-19 Thread Rob Dixon
On 19/07/2013 13:08, dinkypumpkin wrote: On 19/07/2013 12:43, Rob Dixon wrote: I wonder if this doesn't belong in `main::split_title`? I don't think so. split_title produces the correct programme name. It's just the shortening that goes awry. And I'm wondering if it instead split

Re: Problem with Series

2013-07-19 Thread Rob Dixon
On 19/07/2013 11:58, Rob Dixon wrote: On 19/07/2013 11:10, Rob Dixon wrote: On 19/07/2013 10:57, J K.Eason wrote: Using 2.83 on WinXP I've downloaded an episode of the A Series of Psychotic Episodes radio series with the following included in my options file: subdirformat nameshort The output

Re: Listformat

2013-06-24 Thread Rob Dixon
On 23/06/2013 15:41, Kapitano wrote: I want to set the listformat to nameshort senum episodeshort. But the line in the options file listformat nameshort senum episodeshort produces a list of programmes all called nameshort senum episodeshort. The line listformat hello world causes GiP

Re: Saved Filename options

2013-02-04 Thread Rob Dixon
The --fileprefix option is fairly dumb, and won't do anything more than just include the named fields into the pattern you specify. Something using the --command option would be possible, but I can't get the command-line processor to pass the value of filename through on a Windows system. You

Re: Smart naming of output files

2012-07-29 Thread Rob Dixon
On 29/07/2012 12:08, Rob Dixon wrote: On 29/07/2012 09:13, J K.Eason wrote: In the same vein, I'd like to be able to get filenames without the PID and 'default' tacked on the end. It's a real pain having to rename them every time. Hi John You need to adjust the file-prefix option

max_analyze_duration 5000000 reached

2012-04-28 Thread Rob Dixon
Hi all I've seen the error message max_analyze_duration 500 reached at 5014000 Estimating duration from bitrate, this may be inaccurate appear in log files a few times on this list, but no one seems to have raised it as a problem. I'm aware that it probably makes no significant

Re: Signed programmes not downloading

2012-02-23 Thread Rob Dixon
On 23/02/2012 11:41, dinkypumpkin wrote: On 23/02/2012 08:53, Rob Dixon wrote: I have noticed recently that signed television programmes are breaking get_iplayer. An interim fix that seems to work (there may be a better indicator than the one I have chosen) is to add the line $url .= '/sign

Re: Signed programmes not downloading

2012-02-23 Thread Rob Dixon
On 23/02/2012 14:13, dinkypumpkin wrote: On 23/02/2012 13:38, Rob Dixon wrote: If I use, for instance get_iplayer --pid b01b45zh -g to retrieve the Horizon programme 2011-2012: 7. Playing God, it correctly shows me the info line and then says WARNING: No programmes are available

Fwd: Re: For discussion - signed-only programmes displayed in match list won't download without explicit version

2012-02-23 Thread Rob Dixon
From: Thomas Willson thomas.will...@me.com Forwarded from a private message. Original Message Subject: Re: For discussion - signed-only programmes displayed in match list won't download without explicit version Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:49:01 -0800 To: Rob Dixon rob.di

--fields option not working as expected

2012-01-25 Thread Rob Dixon
Hi all I wonder if someone can shed some light on whether this is a bug or I am simply misunderstanding the documentation? If I use something like get_iplayer Panorama the programme is listed correctly. It also works fine if I say get_iplayer Panorama --fields name or get_iplayer