Downloading Subtitles-Only

[dinkypumpkin]

On 11/01/2013 10:52, Kapitano wrote:
> I'm actually trying to use BBC subtitles as a text corpus for linguisic
> analysis, and was hoping to avoid downloading duplicates. But if the
> metadata doesn't indicate subtitle presence, there's no (easy) way for
> GiP to keep track of which srt files have already been downloaded. I'll
> just use duplicate file removal software.

Do you need the download date in the file name?  If you only use 
invariant substitution parameters (<name>, <pid>, etc.) in your file 
name format, get_iplayer won't create duplicates or overwrite previous 
downloads, as long as you're writing to the same directory.  You can 
always get the download date from the file attributes, so you could 
concoct a simple script to archive your subtitle files and append the 
download date to the filename in the process.