BBC Have Broken GetIPlayer

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The BBC have removed the programme data feeds used by get_iplayer, so
search and PVR functions no longer work. There is no programme
information to cache, and it was the cache that supported search and
PVR functions. There is no fix available at this time. You can still
download individual programmes via PID or URL.

http://iplayerhelp.external.bbc.co.uk/tv/feeds
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On Wed, 29 Oct 2014 21:45:39 +0000
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The BBC have removed the programme data feeds used by get_iplayer, so
search and PVR functions no longer work. There is no programme
information to cache, and it was the cache that supported search and
PVR functions. There is no fix available at this time. You can still
download individual programmes via PID or URL.

http://iplayerhelp.external.bbc.co.uk/tv/feeds
/quote

Whew. Since I use one or other of those methods, that's ok. And I'm
using the Humax and iPlayer to do the job more and more. My normal
procedure using get_iplayer is to find the URL with iPlayer, and then
use get_player to download it.

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Yeah, for you perhaps, but the only way I've ever used it is to Google the
name of the program and get-iplayer the resulting URL, followed by some
bafflement as it doesn't work, and then do it again with --type=radio

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The BBC have removed the programme data feeds used by get_iplayer, so
search and PVR functions no longer work. There is no programme
information to cache, and it was the cache that supported search and
PVR functions. There is no fix available at this time. You can still
download individual programmes via PID or URL.

http://iplayerhelp.external.bbc.co.uk/tv/feeds
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In article , Davey
wrote:
On Wed, 29 Oct 2014 21:45:39 +0000 Java Jive
wrote:


http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail...er/006240.html

quote The BBC have removed the programme data feeds used by
get_iplayer, so search and PVR functions no longer work. There is no
programme information to cache, and it was the cache that supported
search and PVR functions. There is no fix available at this time. You
can still download individual programmes via PID or URL.

http://iplayerhelp.external.bbc.co.uk/tv/feeds /quote

Whew. Since I use one or other of those methods, that's ok. And I'm
using the Humax and iPlayer to do the job more and more. My normal
procedure using get_iplayer is to find the URL with iPlayer, and then
use get_player to download it.

As luck would have it, I just started trying out get_iplayer this morning!
For experiments I tried the series of historic 'Sherlock Holmes' recordings
that are under way on R4extra. The PID method seems fine but I've hit a
puzzle.

One program 'Study in Scarlet' (pid b04lsjkv) simply tells me

No programmes are available for this pid with version(s): default

This is using

get_iplayer --type=radio --pid bo4lsjkv --output "directory name"

I've tried adding the --radiomode=better / best / etc. But get exactly the
same failure report.

I've also tried using O instead of 0, etc, but that fails more simply with

Failed to get version pid metadata from iplayer site.

So I assume the pid is correct but for some reason the file isn't labelled
as 'default', etc.

Anyone know what I'm doing wrong? Or is this another sign that the BBC have
been moving the deckchairs?

Jim

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On Thu, 30 Oct 2014 11:13:26 +0000 (GMT)
Jim Lesurf wrote:

In article , Davey
wrote:
On Wed, 29 Oct 2014 21:45:39 +0000 Java Jive
wrote:


http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail...er/006240.html

quote The BBC have removed the programme data feeds used by
get_iplayer, so search and PVR functions no longer work. There is
no programme information to cache, and it was the cache that
supported search and PVR functions. There is no fix available at
this time. You can still download individual programmes via PID
or URL.

http://iplayerhelp.external.bbc.co.uk/tv/feeds /quote

Whew. Since I use one or other of those methods, that's ok. And I'm
using the Humax and iPlayer to do the job more and more. My normal
procedure using get_iplayer is to find the URL with iPlayer, and
then use get_player to download it.

As luck would have it, I just started trying out get_iplayer this
morning! For experiments I tried the series of historic 'Sherlock
Holmes' recordings that are under way on R4extra. The PID method
seems fine but I've hit a puzzle.

One program 'Study in Scarlet' (pid b04lsjkv) simply tells me

No programmes are available for this pid with version(s): default

This is using

get_iplayer --type=radio --pid bo4lsjkv --output "directory name"

I've tried adding the --radiomode=better / best / etc. But get
exactly the same failure report.

I've also tried using O instead of 0, etc, but that fails more simply
with

Failed to get version pid metadata from iplayer site.

So I assume the pid is correct but for some reason the file isn't
labelled as 'default', etc.

Anyone know what I'm doing wrong? Or is this another sign that the
BBC have been moving the deckchairs?

Jim


I had the same problem a couple of weeks ago, and I never found the
answer. It's as though they want to make it harder and harder to find
the programme you want. I tried a day or so later, and it worked.
This morning, I opened iPlayer on my Humax, and for BBC4 for the
whole of yesterday, it showed only one programme, and that one was not
available to view.
Huh? I just checked with the PC, an hour after the Humax attempt, and
all of yesterday’s programming is there. This is nuts.

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Java Jive wrote:

...There is no fix available at this time. You can still
download individual programmes via PID or URL.

Gah. The iplayer feature on my TV is cumbersome to the point of being
unusable, and if I pause a programme, then I've got a 50-50 chance of
being able to resume it, if I return a few minutes later. With
get_iplayer, I was previously able to search on the category "science",
pick out the PID of an interesting programme, download that to my network
drive, and play that on my TV via the RASPBMC media player on the
Raspberry Pi. All with just a few key-clicks using aliases that I'd set
up on my computer.

Anybody know how to find the PID number? I see that I can search the
iplayer website for the complete URL of a title, but if I download using
that with get_iplayer, then I end up with a filename like:
"BBC_iPlayer_Feeds_-_b01lxyzc_default.mp4"

The 8-character code in the URL is the PID, so for that below it's ...
b01lxyzc
.... and ...
get_iplayer --pid b01lxyzc -g
.... should retrieve it. I don't know whether the PID will find the
metadata to name the file properly, but I suspect not. My suspicion
is that this was held in the *.cache files.

On Thu, 30 Oct 2014 12:14:58 +0000, Dave Farrance
wrote:

"BBC_iPlayer_Feeds_-_b01lxyzc_default.mp4"
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Java Jive wrote:

...There is no fix available at this time. You can still download
individual programmes via PID or URL.

Anybody know how to find the PID number? I see that I can search the
iplayer website for the complete URL of a title, but if I download using
that with get_iplayer, then I end up with a filename like:
"BBC_iPlayer_Feeds_-_b01lxyzc_default.mp4"

The last part of the URL of the relevant iplayer webpage is the pid. If I
use get_iplayer I'm not applying any conversions and get a file with a name
similar to the above, but filetyped ".flv"

So I've just been using FF to find the page I'd normally use to play the
item. That shows a URL like

www.bboc.co.uk/programmes/b007znn3

and the pid for it is b007znn3. So I then use --pid b007znn3 to obtain it
with get_iplayer.


Jim

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In article , Davey
wrote:
On Thu, 30 Oct 2014 11:13:26 +0000 (GMT) Jim Lesurf
wrote:


So I assume the pid is correct but for some reason the file isn't
labelled as 'default', etc.

Anyone know what I'm doing wrong? Or is this another sign that the BBC
have been moving the deckchairs?

Jim


I had the same problem a couple of weeks ago, and I never found the
answer. It's as though they want to make it harder and harder to find
the programme you want. I tried a day or so later, and it worked.

OK, thanks. I'll try again in a day or two.

I guess some of the details only get sorted out as and when those involved
notice or get around to it!

Jim

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