Hi I regularly download TOTP episodes which contain the date.
https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/filenames#prefix says: “Dates in Episode Names Some programmes (EastEnders, for example) have episode names that contain only the date of broadcast in UK short format: dd/mm/yyyy. The date will be interpolated into the name of the output file as yyyy-mm-dd.” Last year episodes downloaded like this: (example below downloaded on 29-Dec-23) (prefs contains “whitespace = 1”) 7152: Top of the Pops - 29/12/1983, BBC Four, b08rc78m INFO: 1 matching programmes INFO: Processing tv: 'Top of the Pops - 29/12/1983 (b08rc78m)' INFO: Downloading tv: 'Top of the Pops - 29/12/1983 (b08rc78m) [original]' INFO: Downloaded: 49.98 MB (00:51:23) @ 17.38 Mb/s (dashfhd1/bi) [audio] INFO: Downloaded: 4339.97 MB (00:51:23) @ 63.59 Mb/s (dashfhd1/bi) [video] INFO: Converting to MPEG-TS INFO: Converting to MP4 INFO: Downloading thumbnail INFO: Tagging MP4 INFO: Downloading subtitles [original] New tv programme: 'Top of the Pops - 29/12/1983', 'With JoBoxers, Mike Oldfield, Thompson Twins, Tracey Ullman, The Cure, Paul Young and more' Filenames were of the form “Top of the Pops - 29 12 1983 b08rc78m original.mp4” etc. Then from about 02-Feb-24 episodes are downloaded with the date delimiter changed to “_”. e.g. Matches: 7670: Top of the Pops - 02/02/1978, BBC Four, b01qchgs … INFO: 4 matching programmes INFO: Processing tv: 'Top of the Pops - 02/02/1978 (b01qchgs)' INFO: Downloading tv: 'Top of the Pops - 02/02/1978 (b01qchgs) [original]' INFO: Downloaded: 28.60 MB (00:29:26) @ 14.30 Mb/s (dashfhd1/bi) [audio] INFO: Downloaded: 1785.78 MB (00:29:26) @ 60.03 Mb/s (dashfhd1/bi) [video] INFO: Converting to MPEG-TS INFO: Converting to MP4 INFO: Downloading thumbnail INFO: Tagging MP4 INFO: Downloading subtitles [original] New tv programme: 'Top of the Pops - 02/02/1978', 'With Brotherhood of Man, Smokie, Darts, Sweet, Rose Royce, Rod Stewart and Althea & Donna.' Filenames are of the form “Top of the Pops - 02_02_1978 b01qchgs original.mp4” etc. Neither of the downloads interpolate the date format as illustrated in the docs. Any ideas if this is an iplayer back-end change which has forced the delimiter change this year and/or why get_iplayer behaviour doesn’t match the docs? It’s not exactly an earth-shattering issue but it does change the established filename sorting schema so will require some batch renames. _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer