Debian Bug#611473: get-iplayer: should not allow downloading entire iplayer site without explicitly requesting this

[Andy Bircumshaw]

On 1/2/2011, at 12:40pm, Derek J. Balling wrote:
> On Feb 1, 2011, at 7:37 AM, Alan Pope wrote:
> 
>> On 1 February 2011 11:47, Jonathan Wiltshire <jmw at debian.org> wrote:
>>> I ran an 'at' job overnight of the form
>>> get_iplayer --get $(get_iplayer | grep 'my prog name' | cut -d: -f1)
>>> 
>> 
>> Why even do that? Why not 'get_iplayer "my prog name" --pvradd
>> "my_prog_name"', then cron/at "get_player --pvr"
> 
> Because he probably just said "oh, I want that program", and wanted to download it at a time of day when it wouldn't impact his own usage of the uplink.
> 
> He may not want any sort of "recurrence" that the pvr functionality sets up.


I agree that this is a bug - I think that likewise `get_iplayer --pvrqueue` will also queue every show available - but in this case he could have just used `get_iplayer "my prog name" --pvrqueue` to have avoided the recurrence. 

`get_iplayer --get $(get_iplayer ... )` is ugly and is just asking for trouble.

aB.