Solutions to loss of RSS feed

[Rob Dixon]

On 31/10/2014 23:18, David Woodhouse wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
> I think this approach is best. Let's have a clean separation between the
> code which can actually download media (which get_iplayer can still do
> given a PID), and the code for searching/indexing.
>
> There's no reason to object to the latter in a standalone tool. Hell,
> make it output links to the official BBC iPlayer site or automatically
> spawn them in a browser.
>
> Just let us configure which 'browser' it should invoke, and then nobody
> needs to lose sleep over the fact that *some* people might actually use
> it to invoke the new, slimline, get_iplayer instead of a real browser.

Yes. Something that can ingest the available data and spit it out as a 
GUI or in any number of export formats is what I had in mind.

Rob



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