Delete from history via web interface

[dinkypumpkin]

On 19/03/2012 19:22, JB Caruth wrote:
> Force Recording doesn't work effectively when recording a series via a
> PVR search and I only want to retry the particular episode that
> downloaded at lower quality.

If you're married to using the PVR for one-off downloads, then use Queue 
instead of Add Search to PVR.  Queue will carry the "Force Recording" 
setting into the PVR list entry.  If that's what you're doing, and it's 
not working, tell us what behaviour you're seeing.  Of course, you'll 
still need to move or delete the previous download.  The web app doesn't 
support the overwrite option, and that won't be helped by deleting from 
the download history.  I'm not sure it would be generally useful, but 
perhaps the web app should support the overwrite option - there is your 
chance for glory.

If you don't want to use Queue in the browser interface, another way to 
accomplish this is to use the command line to do a one-off run of just 
the PVR search in question, e.g.:

get_iplayer --force --overwrite --pvr-run <search_name>

I can understand why allowing the browser interface to set the force or 
overwrite options for regular PVR searches might not be a good idea.  If 
you set those options as defaults, it could repeatedly re-download 
results of subsequent PVR searches as long as the programmes are 
available.  I presume that's why it was left to the user to hack PVR 
searches if that's really what he wants to do.  It seems like a 
reasonable limitation going from command-line to browser interface.