The following is a quote from 2.83's long help,
get_iplayer --helplong
(BTW, I have found that these variants
--help-long
--longhelp
--long-help
also work (?) ):
"Search Options:
--future Search future programme schedule if it has been indexed (refresh
cache with: --refresh --refresh-future)."
Now, I am not a native English speaker, but the way "I" understand the above
is with the emphasis being on
"Future programme schedule".
Yet, when I run
get_iplayer --type=radio -f --refresh-future --force
followed by
get_iplayer --type=radio --future "Pete Tong"
I get these two results:
Matches:
15756: Pete Tong - 20/09/2013, BBC Radio 1, Dance &
Electronica,Music,Popular,Radio
15757: Pete Tong - Art Department Goody Goodies, BBC Radio 1 England,
index 15757 corresponds to coming Friday's show (27/09/2013, pid=b03bdhd7),
not yet available on iPlayer, so I would expect to see this in the results,
being a FUTURE programme.
However, I also get index 15756, i.e. LAST Friday's show, already broadcast
in the PAST relative
to when the "future search" was performed, and which is currently available
on iPlayer.
If I needed to get last Friday's show as a search result, I'd have simply
typed:
get_iplayer --type=radio "Pete Tong"
Matches:
15756: Pete Tong - 20/09/2013, BBC Radio 1, Dance &
Electronica,Music,Popular,Radio
So, in its current iteration the --future search feature also searches the
past programme schedule...
Either the long help's "--future" entry needs to be reworded, e.g.
"Additionally search within future programme schedule...", or
"Search past and future programme schedules..."
OR
a patch is needed, so when I type today (25/09/2013):
get_iplayer --type=radio --future "Pete Tong"
I get this result:
Matches:
15757: Pete Tong - Art Department Goody Goodies, BBC Radio 1 England,
What are your thoughts on this?
Vangelis.
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