iPlayerRadio (finally - and sadly) has changed!

[dinkypumpkin]

On 12/02/2014 18:00, Vangelis forthnet wrote:
> individual station I'm interested in...From the "schedule" pages, AOD
> content
> opens up only in the "new" format, e.g. last Sunday's Official Chart
> is available on this URL only:
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03thv4n

get_iplayer HEAD should now support URLs in this format on the command 
line.  It relies on screen scraping, though, so it could break at any 
time.   Always safer just to use the PID.

> As far as get_iplayer is concerned, the "new" AOD pages use the
> v5 mediaselector,
> http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/5/select/version/2.0/mediaset/pc/vpid/[vPID]
>
> while get_iplayer uses for both TV & radio content the "old" v4 one,
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/4/mtis/stream/[vPID]

The open.live.bbc.co.uk URLs appear to have extra items appended after 
the PID.  They don't seem to be necessary for get_iplayer purposes, but 
I'm slightly wary nonetheless.  The results seem to be same for both 
sources, so I'm inclined to leave things as they are for now.

> Thanks to all those that offered advice and solutions over the 3.5 years
> since I joined
> this list (especially dinky), I myself  have provided help for some
> people, too.

Many thanks for your contributions to date.