I wrote a script to read all available iplayer episodes into a database from rss feeds. It has been running live on a server for a good 4 months or so without any problems. If you wanted, I could either share the script with you, or let you grab an xml feed of all episodes from my server. I could even generate an xml document every 6 hours or so. That might be worthwhile. Interestingly, at least for me, the reason I wrote the script was for the exact same reason you outlined. For example, I add Jools Holland to the db and I get an email when Jools is available. I always forget these things :)
rich On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 6:53 PM, Stuart Langridge <s...@kryogenix.org> wrote: > I've been looking at the Programmes stuff, and pages like > http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/genres/factual/player/episodes are > immensely useful -- it shows a list of all programmes in the factual > genre currently available on iPlayer. Since I keep forgetting to check > whether there are new Real Hustle episodes available, I thought I'd > have a cron job grab a feed of "what's currently available on iPlayer" > and parse it for stuff I'm interested in and then mail me, so I don't > forget to watch it. But...I can't work out a way of getting "what's > available on iPlayer" in a machine-readable form. For any one given > programme, I can tell whether it's currently available, but is there > no overall list? > > sil > > -- > New Year's Day -- > everything is in blossom! > I feel about average. > -- Kobayashi Issa > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk developer discussion group. To > unsubscribe, please send an email to majord...@lists.bbc.co.uk with > unsubscribe backstage-developer [your email] as the message. >
