Hi all... For the past 3-4 days, whenever I perform a future radio cache refresh by running:
get_iplayer --type=radio -f --refresh-future --force the refresh does start fine, but after a small while (second cmd prompt window line) I get the following warnings:WARNING: Failed to get programme schedule feed for radio1/programmes/schedules/wales from iplayer site
(6 times in total)WARNING: Failed to get programme schedule feed for radio1/programmes/schedules/northernireland from iplayer site
(6 times in total)WARNING: Failed to get programme schedule feed for radio1/programmes/schedules/scotland from iplayer site
(6 times in total) then the refresh completes without any further warnings... At first I thought it may be due to server errors on the BBC side, as reported recently in a list thread here: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/get_iplayer/2013-September/005019.htmlor, possibly, a connection issue on my end, but, alas, the warnings do persist... I had posted about a similar issue back in June, just before the Tag v2.83 release:
http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/get_iplayer/2013-June/004314.html Back then, the warnings were caused by changes in the feeds' URL, dinkypumpkin came swiftly to the rescue :-) ... In my attempt now to find the changed URLs that would have been, supposedly, responsible for the appearance of the new warnings, I stumbled upon something quite different. If you navigate to these following URLs: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/programmes/schedules/wales/2013/w37 http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/programmes/schedules/northernireland/2013/w37 http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/programmes/schedules/scotland/2013/w37 then they seem to suggest that after Mon 09 Sep 2013 10:00 BST, all 3 separate regional variations of BBC Radio 1 ceased to broadcast (?); I, of course, have no way of checking this, as being overseas, but my safest guess is all 3 changed to the (now unique) england stream... http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/programmes/schedules/england/2013/w37 In conclusion, there exist now no "new" regional Radio 1 schedule feeds, just a single (england) one. And the way to make those WARNINGS go away is just by stopping GiP from checking for them...I did it manually by locating in my copy of the get_iplayer.pl script these lines:
'radio1/programmes/schedules/northernireland'=> 'BBC Radio 1 Northern Ireland',
'radio1/programmes/schedules/scotland' => 'BBC Radio 1 Scotland', 'radio1/programmes/schedules/wales' => 'BBC Radio 1 Wales', and commenting them out (#) (or delete them altogether, if you so prefer). Now, being on Win32 is not very easy to create a patch file for this, but I decided I'd have a go at it. I installed DiffUtils for Windows from here: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/diffutils.htm then spent some time to get familiar with the command line syntax... The patch was created against the git HEAD at the time of posting (commit f495e0d6df5a829c8b1aaa8c3b7e979066e0f1bc) command used was: diff -u "get_iplayer.git-f495e0d" "get_iplayer-patched" > "RegionalR1.patch" Resulting patch is attached. (I could be wrong however, and new regional R1 feeds may appear later or can be found already where I haven't searched, but at least I learnt tonight how to create a simple patch!) Regards, Vangelis.
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