"C E Macfarlane" <c.e.macfarl...@macfh.co.uk> wrote: >1) First Broadcast Date > >AFAICS, there is no way to get the first broadcast date from the XML >metadata into the filename.
There is, but a more fundamental problem is that the BBC are not consistent in how they use the value - sometimes it really is the first time something was broadcast, but other times it's the date of the first recent repeat. You code a --fileprefix argument detailing which bits of info you want in what order, mixing literal values and symbolic ones as you desire. I use a fileprefix argument that's built by a script; for my 2745th fetch, issued yesterday from a machine I call 'SN130', it used: --file-prefix "$GRAB-SN130-002745 R=<nameshort> [20150102 Jan02] S<seriesnum> E<episodenum> - E=<episodetitle> 'E=<episode>' P=<pid> M=<mode> Z=<duration> F=<firstbcastdate> L=<lastbcastdate>" which is probably much more complicated than you want... (This sort of complicated filename means that successive attempts to fetch the same programme end up with different filenames - because of the sequence number at the start, deliberately. This also makes it easier to find the right instances of commands in my script's log files etc.) ALthough it looks as if I've needlessly duplicated series & episode number info, I end up with filenames that usually do have those numbers in them somewhere. The literals like "E=" and "'E=" are deliberately slightly different so I know which part of the template name yielded which values in the resulting name. The "R=" only appears in radio downloads I do, "T=" in TV ones. >2) Capitalisation > >Is there an option to get ... > Letter From America By Alistair Cooke >... instead of the default ... > Letter from America by Alistair Cooke Don't you think the BBC's way of listing the programme name is the correct way? -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own. _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer