player.xml broken

[Mark Barnes]

Thanks for this suggestion. If I've understood get_iplayer correctly, that suggestion does a search. I don't really want to do that, as it can sometimes pick up false positives, particularly for programmes with short series titles such as "Heresy" or "Genius". Can it be done with a PID? (I'm also interested in knowing HOW get_iplayer might do that.)

Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: get_iplayer [mailto:get_iplayer-bounces at lists.infradead.org] On Behalf Of Jon Davies
Sent: 08 May 2014 18:18
To: get_iplayer at lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: player.xml broken

On 7 May 2014 14:22, Mark Barnes <mark at sharonandmark.net> wrote:
> I've been using player.xml URLs to download the programmes available in a series or brand. Unfortunately, most of them have stopped working in the last few days, and return "Invalid Page Number".
>
> This doesn't work: 
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qfz6/episodes/player.xml
> But this one does: 
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006r9xr/episodes/player.xml
>
> Does anyone know a way in which I get a list of every programme in a series, so I can use get_iplayer to download them?

You could use a command line something like this:

   get_iplayer --type radio "Classic Serial" --get

which will get all available programmes in the "Classic Serial" series.
(and similarly get_iplayer --type radio "Start the Week" --get)

What you can't do is download episodes that are no longer on iPlayer.
So you'll have to run this periodically - or have get_iplayer do it for you.  (there are too many ways to describe them all here, try https://github.com/dinkypumpkin/get_iplayer/wiki  and then ask ;-)

Cheers
Jon

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