A message from Auntie

[Roger Bell_West]

On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 09:08:26AM -0000, Trevor Campbell Davis wrote:
>It’s a pain, but I can easily manually source the PIDs of the
>programmes that I want on a daily basis.  What I don’t want (or have
>time) to do is to manually enter single command line instructions for
>each programme when the previous one has finished downloading.  So a
>script (resembling a queue) where I can enter multiple PIDs for
>automatic sequential download would be really helpful.

At the most basic level, you can just use the shell (this is for
bash):

for P in b00hslb0 b04mb11l b04mb6ck; do get_iplayer --type radio --metadata generic --pid $P --get; done

I have written a program to automate scraping, but I'm working on
getting it into a suitable form for release.

R