Can't get the correct number of search matches

dinkypumpkin dinkypumpkin at gmail.com
Thu Oct 16 08:48:23 PDT 2014


On 16/10/2014 13:09, Tony Gioia wrote:
> Are you saying, though, that it is still possible to record programs > 7 days by using the PID?

Only with the patched version of get_iplayer, in theory.

> I tried but got message saying PID not found (I double-checked the command by using the PID of the programs < 7 days old and that worked)

Unfortunately, the episodes in your particular series lack the metadata 
even the patched get_iplayer requires to download by PID after >7 days. 
  Likely broken at the BBC end, but hard to say these days.

If anyone else finds some of these, post the URLs.  I can probably patch 
around this new problem, but it will mean screen scraping, which is 
inherently fragile.





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