On 31 October 2014 21:21, Rob Dixon <rob.di...@gmx.com> wrote: > Scrape the BBC web site directly for the information that used to come > from the RSS feeds. Apart from being a very clumsy approach, this is > almost certainly against the terms of service for the web site.
Nevertheless, as a stop-gap (so my daughter doesn't freak out at missing episodes of '64 Zoo Lane') I've written a (very rough) Ruby script which runs through my PVR files, pulls out the search term, and scrapes the iplayer site for matching episodes' PIDs. These get pumped into a system call to download the episode by PID. A hideous process... I'm doing hundreds of calls to the iplayer website, and the filtering functionality is much reduced from what GiP gives/gave (I can't specify by channel - yet - for instance). Also, it's only working for TV, since the Radio channels' interface for iplayer is totally different (and more obfuscated) - so I'll nibble away at that tonight. I'll stick it on github later - but it *might* only work on *nix - I'll leave a Windows user to see if they can get it working for them. PS Sorry, to Rob Dixon for multiple copies of this email - it seems I can't work a mailing list :-/ _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
