any way to download this?

[Holger Rabbach]

On 23.03.2011 18:11, dinkypumpkin wrote:
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> On 23 Mar 2011, at 16:13, dinkypumpkin wrote:
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>> On 23 Mar 2011, at 15:09, ZULU wrote:
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>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Holger Rabbach" <hrabbach at fablemail.com>
>>> To: <get_iplayer at lists.infradead.org>
>>> Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2011 2:24 PM
>>> Subject: any way to download this?
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>> I'm trying to get get_iplayer to download the embedded video in the
>>>> following page:
>>>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/2011/03/a_is_for_atom.html#
>>>> I've tried several different ways, using the --url parameter, using the
>>>> pid extracted from the page source (p00fq0p3) and using the playlist URL
>>>> from the page source (http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/playlist/p00fq0p3).
>>>> None of these methods work... is there any way to download the video
>>>> with get_iplayer?
>>>
>>> It does not appear to be available <yet> on the iPlayer website.
>>> ...or if it is, I can't find it!
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>> It turns up on the website here:
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>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p00fq0p3/Adam_Curtis_A_is_for_Atom_from_Pandoras_Box_series/
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>> But that probably won't help.  I got it to download, but only by making a couple of small modifications to get_iplayer.  Basically, get_iplayer doesn't understand the "Clip" resource type in the RDF file describing the programme.  A bug with > 2038 dates crops up as well.  I'll test it a few more times and then post my changes, though this probably isn't a generally useful feature.
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> If you'd like to make quick hack to your copy of get_iplayer to get the A is for Atom video, the patch below shows what I had to do to make it work.  This NOT a general solution to handling resources of type Clip.  Since you have the PID that points to the clip itself, it will work more less like pointing get_iplayer to a normal programme episode.   However, clips (like episodes) may be in series, so additional RDF parsing would be necessary for a general treatment.  Consider this just a one-off solution to this particular problem.  At any rate, after making these changes, get_iplayer worked as normal with --pid p00fq0p3.  
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> The patch is below.  If it gets mangled in transmission, contact me off-list.  If it doesn't work for you, again, contact me off-list and I'll get video to you via another channel.
> 
> If any maintainers read this, I should point out that there seems to be a genuine bug in bounds checking of dates.  Only the year was being changed to reflect the limit of 32-bit unix time, but unix time runs on out 2038-01-19.  In this case, the expiry date in the metadata was 2041-03-17 23:59:00, which was changed to 2038-03-17 23:59:00, so the script bombed because the date was still invalid.  I can post in a separate patch if you prefer.
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thanks - I'll have a go with this :)

Holger