unable to download radio episodes from web pages

[Marshall Cleave]

On Sun, 29 Dec 2013 18:10:38 +0000
Rob Al <robert.aleck at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm trying to get a backlog of "the moral maze" to listen to on a
> trip. The episodes are available to listen to online (e.g.
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03gg7nh) but when i try and download
> these, even if i use --type=all, I get told the PID doesn't exist in
> the cache. Is there a way to fetch these?
> 
> robert at ub:~/get_iplayer$ ./get_iplayer
> "http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03gg7nh" --output
> '~/Downloads/1.mp3' --aactomp3 --type=all
> get_iplayer v2.82, 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.
> 
> ERROR: Please set --localfilesdirs to point to your collection if
*snip*

The following works for me.

get_iplayer --get --type=radio --pid=b03gg7nh

Hope it helps.

--Marshall