Thumbnails not downloading with pid

2014-11-01 Thread Tony Spearshaker
Hi When get_iplayer stopped working a few days ago, the first thing I did was install the latest version. I am able to download using pid, but the thumbnails are generally not downloading. This also applies when I try to download current thumbnails only (although a lot of thumbnails only

Downloading multiple pids

2014-11-01 Thread Tony Spearshaker
Hi Now that we are forced into using pids, does anyone know how to download more than one at the same time? I haven't yet managed to find a way that works. (I am using Windows 7 with Windows Installer 4.9.) Thanks. Tony ___ get_iplayer mailing

Re: Downloading multiple pids

2014-11-01 Thread Mark Evans
I believe the next release will allow multiple pids to be specified. On 1 Nov 2014, at 09:01, Tony Spearshaker tonyspearsha...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi Now that we are forced into using pids, does anyone know how to download more than one at the same time? I haven't yet managed to find a

Re: Information Overload on GiP Changes

2014-11-01 Thread Tom
On 31/10/14 23:11, Budgie wrote: First my grateful thanks for the massive amount of work which dinkypumpkin and others have put into GiP. I have made constant use of --pvr facility, mainly for radio, over the last two years and am most grateful for the work which has brought my family and me a

Re: Proof-of-concept scraper for iPlayer web frontend TV data to JSON

2014-11-01 Thread Tom
On 01/11/14 02:01, Steven Maude wrote: On 01/11/2014 00:27, dinkypumpkin wrote: Thanks for that. From underneath 10,000 lines of Perl I gaze longingly at that lovely strictly-indented, sigil-less Python. Python is really easy to use, though not everyone loves the indentation! As someone who

Re: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)

2014-11-01 Thread Michael Pavling
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

Re: Downloading multiple pids

2014-11-01 Thread Chris Marriott
-Original Message- From: Tony Spearshaker Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2014 9:01 AM To: get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org Subject: Downloading multiple pids Hi Now that we are forced into using pids, does anyone know how to download more than one at the same time? I haven't yet

Re: get_iplayer repair update #1

2014-11-01 Thread Guy Rolls
On 01/11/2014 00:45, dinkypumpkin wrote: get_iplayer has been more or less repaired, but there are still some wounds... A huge THANK YOU for your previous, and continuing, efforts to keep get_iPlayer alive. It is much appreciated by many people.

Re: [ANN] get_iplayer search and PVR functions no longer work - no fix available

2014-11-01 Thread Jon Davies
On 29 October 2014 13:20, dinkypumpkin dinkypump...@gmail.com wrote: The BBC have removed the programme data feeds used by get_iplayer It seems that the programme schedule data feeds are still working (lots of xml, e.g. http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcone/programmes/schedules/hd/2014/10/31.xml) and

Re: [ANN] get_iplayer search and PVR functions no longer work - no fix available

2014-11-01 Thread Jonathan H
Don't forget that with most services, including the bbc, you just swap .xml for .json if you prefer json and find it easier to work with an object. http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcone/programmes/schedules/hd/2014/10/31.json Also, the Yahoo Query Language console might be worth a look for transforming

Shell script to get PIDs from schedules

2014-11-01 Thread Peter Scott
Apologies if this arrives twice -- I forgot to send it as plain text the first time. I rarely used get_iplayer's searches and I only use Linux and the command line. I have a script to get the PIDs from the radio4 schedule; I have modified it to do TV too. It is very crude but someone may find it

Multiple pids - another way, in some cases

2014-11-01 Thread roadcone
For those new to using the command line or terminal and wanting to secure all programs from a series, there may be an alternative to harvesting and entering multiple pids. In some cases the program series may have a series web page. For example, Germany: Memories of a Nation has this one:

[PATCH] Hack to enable finding programmes through programme schedules

2014-11-01 Thread Jon Davies
below is a hack that uses last week's schedules (and stuff before today in this week's schedules) to enable some degree of searching for tv programmes. Dinkypumpkin's proposed updates will almost certainly provide a better solution, but this seems to be making the pvr work again for me. YMMV

Re: Information Overload on GiP Changes

2014-11-01 Thread Budgie
On 31/10/14 23:36, Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer wrote: Budgie aje...@errichel.co.uk wrote: First my grateful thanks for the massive amount of work which dinkypumpkin and others have put into GiP. I have made constant use of --pvr facility, mainly for radio, over the last two years and am

Re: Information Overload on GiP Changes

2014-11-01 Thread Mark Carroll
Budgie aje...@errichel.co.uk writes: I guess the public will only get access to the iPlayer material if they have a TV licence or some new on-line license. Just a guess but is it a credible threat? I'd be fine with having to put my television licence number in a .iplayerrc file or somesuch

Re: Information Overload on GiP Changes

2014-11-01 Thread Paul Phillips
I agree, it also looks to me like they are moving to some sort of closed model that needs keys to access it. Quite how on earth they will do this without locking out lots of legacy devices I don't know. Thanks Jeremy, that helps me understand a bit more. Having continued to read on the BBC

Further Thoughts On The Data Issue

2014-11-01 Thread C E Macfarlane
Steven Maude Wrote: There's three ways something like this could be used: 1. Client-side scraping of programme data (maybe a Perl script that more directly hooks into get_iplayer would be better?) It would take some time to populate the programme data. Scraping the index pages for TV

Re: Information Overload on GiP Changes

2014-11-01 Thread Timothy
Mark Carroll m...@ixod.org wrote: Budgie aje...@errichel.co.uk writes: I guess the public will only get access to the iPlayer material if they have a TV licence or some new on-line license. Just a guess but is it a credible threat? I'd be fine with having to put my television licence

Re: We should be grateful ( was Re: A message from Auntie )

2014-11-01 Thread Peter S Kirk
On 31 Oct 2014 at 21:58, Peter S Kirk Peter S Kirk peter.k...@isauk.biz wrote: I'm visiting mum tomorrow and will try to remember to test if her two Sony smart TVs still work with BBC iPlayer. Update: visited mum today. Her bedroom Sony smart TV sticks on loading... when iPlayer

Re: get_iplayer repair update #1

2014-11-01 Thread peter
Can I also say a massive thank you to Dinky and others who have worked in double quick time to get a fix. I have used get_iplayer for several years but only joined the mailing list when disaster seemed to strike late last week. The response has been a fantastic demonstration of open source

Re: We should be grateful ( was Re: A message from Auntie )

2014-11-01 Thread Owen Smith
This is a problem the BBC should have foreseen. As soon as you put software into embedded devices like TVs or PVRs, either you have to support it for at least 10 years or you will break someone's viewing experience. It appears to me that insufficient thought was given to this. I've been in the

Re: We should be grateful ( was Re: A message from Auntie )

2014-11-01 Thread Ian Andrews
It might be worth raising it on the Sony forum, or checking which firmware it's got and what the most recent is on the Sony support page for that model. I have a Sony TV from what I believe to be the first year they did Internet TVs - 2010 - and I've just checked, the iPlayer is working fine.

Re: Multiple pids - another way, in some cases

2014-11-01 Thread Nick Payne
That method doesn't seem to work for me - for TV, anyway. For example, BBC4 have a number of blues programs available in their archive (see http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/group/p01m79bn). If I try to use the p01m79bn pid, I get the following: get_iplayer --pid=p01m79bn --pid-recursive --output

BBC Radio Downloads

2014-11-01 Thread Tim Errington
Hello, And firstly, thanks for all of your efforts so far that has made it possible for me and many others to listen to BBC radio here in New Zealand and around the world. This ability has allowed me and my family to keep up with what is happening back home for the last few years and its now

Re: BBC Radio Downloads

2014-11-01 Thread Terry L. Ridder
Hello There have been several patches suggested to get_iplayer-2.87. It is not clear which operating system you are using so I cannot be more helpful. I use Debian Linux and Mac OSX Snow Leopard/Mountain Lion/Mavericks/Yosemite. My get_iplayer computer is a Mac Mini using a 40in flat panel TV

RE: BBC Radio Downloads

2014-11-01 Thread Tim Errington
Hello Terry, Thanks for the swift reply. It's really rather simple this end, Windows 7 on a pc. All I use Get_Iplayer for is downloading radio programmes (Chris Evans) to save on a USB memory stick and listen on the car radio! As kiwi radio is so damn awful, it's really refreshing to listen to

Re: BBC Radio Downloads

2014-11-01 Thread Terry L. Ridder
Hello I will send you the patched get_player and use it. Just call it as get_iplayer-patched instead of get_iplayer or get_iplayer.pl . It should work. I like the Doctor Blake Mysteries and the Miss Fisher program. Sent from my iPad terry l. ridder On Nov 1, 2014, at 21:18, Tim Errington

Re: Information Overload on GiP Changes

2014-11-01 Thread Rob Dixon
On 01/11/2014 17:50, Nick wrote: On Sat, 01 Nov 2014 10:59:14 + Tom madtom1...@googlemail.com wrote: [...JS] - and like any other programming language you can write rubbish programs with it and as many people do, and everyone in the world can see it, it gets the blame when its really MS who