ChorltonDragon wrote: > Hi, > > I was doing some spelunking to understand how the iPlayer plugin works > (with a view to doing something for Alexa) and I spotted the following > in an HTTP response when getting an extras episode list: > > X-Aps-Deprecation-Notice: APS is now supported on a UK-office-hours > basis only, *and in April 2017 it will be deprecated entirely*. In the > event of any outages, your attention is drawn to Clause 4 of the licence > under which this service was provided at its inception in 2007. Nitro > will, probably during 2017, become the BBC's API for programme metadata, > and can provide all the information previously provided by APS. > > I use extras a lot with my Squeezeboxen and always knew the BBC could > withdraw the feeds it uses at any time - but I didn't realise a date had > been scheduled. Pity Nitro appears to be internal use only :( > > CTD
I've known and warned users that many of the feeds Extra uses will die. Extras uses feeds from a number of "sources" and I am not sure which one you are referring to. Regardding Nitro and public use - in the BBC May 2015 blog > Currently access is limited to BBC teams but we are working on the > changes required to open this up to external non-commercial and hobbyist > users; this should be available later this year (a project known as > Nitro Public). I "feel" Nitro for public has been shelved and will not happen as it is now 2 years since that message. Amongst other things the suggested T&Cs are too onerous and would be impossible to comply in the plugin context (e.g. each user would need to get an Id as a single Id has to be able to apply request rate restriction). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=72709 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
