Probably should have listed the radio ones (the iPlayer now does radio too!)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/programmes/schedules/2008/07/09.xml http://www.bbc.co.uk/1xtra/programmes/schedules/2008/07/09.xml http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/programmes/schedules/2008/07/09.xml http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/programmes/schedules/2008/07/09.xml http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/programmes/schedules/fm/2008/07/09.xml http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/programmes/schedules/lw/2008/07/09.xml http://www.bbc.co.uk/fivelive/programmes/schedules/2008/07/09.xml http://www.bbc.co.uk/5livesportsextra/programmes/schedules/2008/07/09.xml http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/programmes/schedules/2008/07/09.xml http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7/programmes/schedules/2008/07/09.xml http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/schedules/2008/07/09.xml http://www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland/programmes/schedules/fm/2008/07/09.xml Happy XMLing. 2008/7/9 Brian Butterworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Alasdair, > > You can easily get the current iPlayer programmes by using the /programmes > feeds. > > You can get each channel's programme listing for each day by using, for > example: > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcone/programmes/schedules/london/2008/07/09.xml > > You will find in the XML an <iplayer> tag: > > <iplayer> > <audio_expires/> > <video_expires>2008-07-16T04:39:00+01:00</video_expires> > </iplayer> > > Which tells you if it's audio or video and when it expires. > > Also in each <broadcast> item is a <pid> field, which you use to get to the > iPlayer content. (not the PID in the <series> section). Just use a URL > starting http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/ with the PID on the end to > get to the content. > > The other TV URLs are: > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctwo/programmes/schedules/england/ > http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/programmes/schedules/ > http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/programmes/schedules/ > http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/programmes/schedules/ > http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/programmes/schedules/ > http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcnews/programmes/schedules/ > http://www.bbc.co.uk/parliament/programmes/schedules/ > > I hope this helps. > > 2008/7/9 Alasdair King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > (Apologies if you've heard this all before) >> >> I write several very popular applications for blind people to allow >> them to access BBC content easily: >> http://www.webbie.org.uk/accessiblebbc/index.htm >> http://www.webbie.org.uk/accessibleradio/index.htm >> http://www.webbie.org.uk/accessiblebbciplayer/index.htm >> >> They all work by screen-scraping and using webbrowser automation to >> extract the simple information I need to be able to present blind >> people with easy-to-use lists of available content, for example: >> - All the radio programs available through Listen Again for a given >> channel. >> - All the TV programs available through iPlayer right now. >> - All the live radio stations currently available. >> >> I would LOVE, and have repeatedly requested to anyone kind enough to >> listen, some kind of OPML/RSS/RDF source for the content. Then I could >> stop my screen-scraping, which of course breaks when the BBC updates >> their website (hardly ever, thanks guys!) and spend my limited >> development time on a different open-source and free accessibility >> project for blind people. I can only assume that some politics are >> preventing this, since it doesn't seem a technically-challenging >> problem. >> >> Best wishes, >> Dr. Alasdair King >> WebbIE >> http://www.webbie.org.uk >> >> >> On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 10:50 AM, David Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> > 2008/7/9 Brian Butterworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> Or perhaps just one big >> >> http://feeds.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/catalogue.xml >> >> with the whole structure in it? >> > >> > That'd work better :) >> > >> > -d >> > - >> > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk developer discussion group. To >> unsubscribe, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with >> unsubscribe backstage-developer [your email] as the message. >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> Alasdair King >> - >> Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk developer discussion group. To >> unsubscribe, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with >> unsubscribe backstage-developer [your email] as the message. >> > > > > -- > > Brian Butterworth > > http://www.ukfree.tv - independent digital television and switchover > advice, since 2002 > -- Please email me back if you need any more help. Brian Butterworth http://www.ukfree.tv - independent digital television and switchover advice, since 2002
