Trouble downloading to USA

[Philip Walden]

Nevermind. I just realized that I needed to go through an anonymous 
proxy. Told you I was new ;)

Using an anonymous proxy I was able to download the video.

Philip

Philip Walden wrote:
> I am a new get_iplayer user. I have not been able to get it to work.
>
> I understand the UK IP issue and have tried going through a proxy. 
> However, I never seem to be able to get a download to work. I get the 
> following error:
>
> WARNING: No programmes are available for this pid
> ERROR: Could not get version pid metadata
>
> Here is a full transcript:
>
> # get_iplayer --proxy http://95.172.68.149:80 | grep -i 'World Business'
> 826:    World Business Report - 19/01/2011, BBC News 24, 
> Factual,Money,News,TV, default,
> 827:    World Business Report - 20/01/2011, BBC News 24, 
> Factual,Money,News,TV, default,
> 828:    World Business Report - 21/01/2011, BBC News 24, 
> Factual,Money,News,TV, default,
> 829:    World Business Report - 24/01/2011, BBC News 24, 
> Factual,Money,News,TV, default,
> 830:    World Business Report - 25/01/2011, BBC News 24, 
> Factual,Money,News,TV, default,
>
> # get_iplayer --debug --proxy http://95.172.68.149:80 --get 830
> DEBUG: Parsing options from /etc/get_iplayer/options:
> get_iplayer v2.79, Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Phil Lewis
>   This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details use 
> --warranty.
>   This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under 
> certain
>   conditions; use --conditions for details.
>
> INFO: User prefs dir: /root/.get_iplayer
> INFO: System options dir: /etc/get_iplayer/options
> Current options:
>     proxy = http://95.172.68.149:80
>     verbose = 1
>
> INFO: Search args: '830'
> INFO: Using Proxy http://95.172.68.149:80
> DEBUG: Looking for index 830 in tv type
> INFO: Additionally getting cached programme data for tv
> INFO: Cache format from existing tv cache file: 
> index,type,name,pid,available,episode,seriesnum,episodenum,versions,duration,desc,channel,categories,thumbnail,timeadded,guidance,web 
>
> INFO: Got 847 file cache entries for tv
> DEBUG: Cache expiry time for tv is 14400 secs - refresh in 12308 secs
> DEBUG: Using desktop user-agent string: 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 
> 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50878; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET 
> CLR 3.5.30878; InfoPath.1)'
> DEBUG: Using NoCookies user-agent 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; 
> Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50878; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 
> 3.5.30878; InfoPath.1)'
> Matches:
> 830:    World Business Report - 25/01/2011, BBC News 24, 
> Factual,Money,News,TV, default,
>
> INFO: 1 Matching Programmes
> INFO: Loaded history for first check.
> INFO: Loading recordings history
> INFO: Programme not in history
> DEBUG: Using desktop user-agent string: 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 
> 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50878; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET 
> CLR 3.5.30878; InfoPath.1)'
> DEBUG: Using cookies.desktop user-agent 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 
> 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50878; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET 
> CLR 3.5.30878; InfoPath.1)'
> INFO: iPlayer metadata URL = 
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/playlist/b00y1vkq
> INFO: Getting page http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/playlist/b00y1vkq
> DEBUG: No Encoding used on http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/playlist/b00y1vkq
> WARNING: No programmes are available for this pid
> ERROR: Could not get version pid metadata
> INFO: Loaded history for first check.
> INFO: Loading recordings history