Fw: Re: Quick URL doesn't work ....

[M Clark]

Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2014 at 3:01 AM
From: "Alan Milewczyk"
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Just following this up, I'm really struggling..... I read some of the
docs on substitution parameters and taking the first Autumnwatch
programme which has a PID of b04n8zdp, I tried amending the example
showing how to download "Top Gear" with this for Autumnwatch|:

get_iplayer --pid ||b04n8zdp --tvmode=best --type=tv
--file-prefix="<nameshort><-senum><-episodeshort>"|

I got the following result:
"get_iplayer v2.86, Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Phil Lewis
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details use
--warranty.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under
certain
conditions; use --conditions for details.

WARNING: rdf URL contained no data
WARNING: PID URL contained no RDF data. Trying to record PID directly.
INFO: Trying pid: b04n8zd using type: tv
INFO: Trying to stream pid using type tv
INFO: pid not found in tv cache

ERROR: Failed to get version pid metadata from iplayer site"

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks

Alan

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First check to see if you have an Options file located at...
C:\Users\x\.get_iplayer
where x is your user name, if not create one with the following command...
get_iplayer --add-prefs
it will have no extention and be empty.  Add the following line...
fileprefix <title>_<pid>
or just <title> if you don't want the pid in the file name.  Now you can enter...
get_iplayer --pid b04n8zdp --type tv  --modes best
This should download as...
Autumnwatch_2014_Episode_1_b04n8zdp.mp4
Good luck!
 
 This will not populate the download_history file correctly having "BBC iPlayer Feeds" as the programme name but, sometimes, the rest of the entry is ok.
 
dinkypumpkin,
I'm not a Perl man (strictly PL/1) but couldn't the download_history file take the programme name from Title and not Name?  It seems to working ok on my downloads.
 
Regards,
M