Shell script to get PIDs from schedules

Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer jn.ml.gti.91 at wingsandbeaks.org.uk
Sun Nov 2 11:22:31 PST 2014


Dirk Husemann <dirk+getiplayer at d2h.net> wrote:

>On 2014-11-02 19:49, Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer wrote:

>> Interesting, but not a schedule.  You already knew the pid...
>
>which you can get from the iplayer guide page:
>http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/guide/bbc/20141029

Yes, but the point of the thread is finding ways to extract all this info
from the bbc (to build a searchable list of available programmes, which is
what get_iplayer's radio.cache and tv.cache files were) without scraping
complicated and - potentially - ever-changing internal format webpages.

-- 
Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.



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