Can't get the correct number of search matches

[Tony Gioia]

I tried the patch and it worked. Thanks.

As an aside, I did noticed another possible issue, which is that get_iplayer won't record the Sign-languaged programs in the Andy's Wild Adventures series (message about no versions for PID), It doesn't bother me (I can just wait for the non-signed version to become available) but maybe is of interest to the forum? I can start a separate thread.

Regards

Tony

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dinkypumpkin at gmail.com
> Sent: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 23:29:01 +0100
> To: get_iplayer at lists.infradead.org
> Subject: Re: Can't get the correct number of search matches
> 
> On 16/10/2014 16:48, dinkypumpkin wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Related patch has been pushed to GitHub.  Now if both XML and JSON
> playlists don't net results, get_iplayer will attempt to scrape the
> episode's iPlayer page to dig out the version PID values (vPIDs).  This
> only works for TV programmes - iPlayer radio pages don't contain vPIDs -
> so get_iplayer blindly marks any results from VPID scraping as TV
> programmes.  This sort of functionality is very fragile, so expect it to
> break at any time.  Hopefully the XML and JSON playlists will do he job
> for most programmes.
> 
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