Dropping get_iPlayer

Andy Bircumshaw andy at networkned.co.uk
Mon Oct 18 07:15:17 EDT 2010


On 18 Oct 2010, at 11:53, David Woodhouse wrote:

> On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 09:23 +0100, Dan Ashby wrote:
>> One of the less desirable aspects of this project is the way it's  
>> tied
>> in with porn sites:
> ...It happens to work
> with those sites, if you *ask* it to download from those sites by  
> giving
> it an appropriate (or inappropriate) URL.
> ...
> Obviously you wouldn't want it automatically indexing those sites
> without being asked, and presenting results from there in a title
> search.

And the nice thing about get_iplayer (not that I want to go near the  
code, any further than I have done already) is that it *does* index  
the iPlayer listings, and will download episodes by title on a  
recurring basis. get-flash-videos won't ever do anything like the -- 
pvr mode.

aB.




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