BBC Archive Blues Collections

[dinkypumpkin]

On 19/02/2014 14:10, michael norman wrote:
> To be specific I would like to find the pids for the programmes here
>
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/collections/p01m79bn/blues
>
> and download them either individually or as a batch

There are some things you can download as a batch, but not these.  That 
page links to a number of episodes from different series, thus the 
"/collections/" in the URL.  Use Ben's handy spreadsheet to scrape the 
PIDs and download them directly.  You can't download those 11 programmes 
as a batch because they are not part of a series.  They just happen to 
be linked from the same page, and get_iplayer doesn't have the ability 
to scrape arbitrary links from a page.

If you want to download a series as a batch, find the PID from its 
series home page.  For example, Devil's Blues Series 2:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00ljwxp

Then use --pid-recursive:

get_iplayer --pid=p00ljwxp --pid-recursive

The XML::Simple Perl module is required for --pid-recursive.  If you're 
on OSX or Windows, you should have it installed.  If you're on 
Linux/Unix, you may not.  get_iplayer will warn you if you don't.  If 
not installed see:

https://github.com/dinkypumpkin/get_iplayer/wiki/manual#wiki-manual-perl