Solutions to loss of RSS feed

[Rob Dixon]

On 31/10/2014 23:12, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> On 2014/10/31 21:21, Rob Dixon wrote:
>> - Write a new application that uses the Nitro API, ostensibly to provide
>> a different and more flexible way of viewing the BBC schedule, but
>> capable of exporting the information for use in get_iplayer. This could
>> even reconstruct the old XML RSS feeds, but I don't see a reason to add
>> such an awkward intermediate format.
>>
>> This last option seems to me to be the most likely to succeed. I have
>> applied for a licence for my own use and I shall be experimenting with
>> what is possible. After some experimentation I will be glad to add an
>> export along the lines I have described, to be specified by those
>> responsible for get_iplayer.
>
> Whether or not this could export something that would be useful to
> get_iplayer, it would be useful in itself. I've certainly used get_iplayer
> a few times to look for programmes of interest because the search facilities
> are....slightly better than the BBC's website ;)... and then gone to watch
> them using a BBC-Approved Method.

Precisely, and I assume I would have no problem getting a licence to 
write something of that sort. The fact that it may export something that 
could be useful for get_iplayer is incidental.

Rob



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