Winter Olympics live stream recording

[Paul Phillips]

Wow, thank you so much

Got the BBC URL no problem,
I am struggling to get the new iplayer script to be recognised though.
I get this (see screenshot)
http://sdrv.ms/1bK8p1f


On 9 February 2014 16:16, dinkypumpkin <dinkypumpkin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 09/02/2014 11:59, Paul Phillips wrote:
>>
>> They seem to have done something different since the 2012 olympics,
>> there are highlight type programmes on iplayer but they seem to have
>> done something very different with the live feeds URLs. I can't figure
>
>
> Yeah, it is a different system from 2012, at least on the front end.  It
> isn't obvious to me how the asset identifiers used in the player page URLs
> are translated into stream identifiers.  It may not be discoverable at all.
> Whatever the case, I'm not drunk enough to go rooting through a pile of
> minified javascript to find out.
>
> It turns out that there is a hacky way to record the live streams. First,
> download a slightly modified version of get_iplayer:
>
> https://raw.github.com/dinkypumpkin/get_iplayer/olympics/get_iplayer
>
> It's probably a good idea to rename the script to something like
> "get_iplayer-olympics".  The get_iplayer modifications are required because
> it doesn't interpret playlist URLs in the form below as referring to live
> streams, which normally they don't.
>
> Second, find the playlist URL for the live programme.  These instructions
> are for Firefox, but other browsers have similar tools.
>
> - Open web console (Web Developer -> Web Console)
> - Only the Net tab needs to be selected in web console
> - Navigate to player page for live stream
> - Click play button to start stream playback
> - Once playback begins, click pause button to stop
> - In the "Filter output" field in web console, enter "playlist"
> - In the filtered list, you should see one or more URLs in this form:
>
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/playlist/p01qz6sb
>
> - If there is more than one URL in that form, it is the last one you want to
> try
> - Right click on URL and select "Copy link location"
> - Paste the URL as an argument to the modified get_iplayer
>
> get_iplayer-olympics --modes=best
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/playlist/p01qz6sb
>
>
>
>
>
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Paul Phillips