Proof-of-concept scraper for iPlayer web frontend TV data to JSON

[Rob Dixon]

On 01/11/2014 01:29, Steven Maude wrote:
>
> At a glance, robots.txt doesn't seem to disallow accessing the sections
> needed. In the terms of use, there is this though:
>
> "(d) You agree to use BBC Online Services and access, download, view
> and/or listen to BBC Content as supplied to you by the BBC and you may
> not, and you may not assist anyone to, or attempt to, reverse engineer,
> decompile, disassemble, adapt, modify, copy, reproduce, lend, hire,
> rent, perform, sub-license, make available to the public, create
> derivative works from, broadcast, distribute, commercially exploit,
> transmit or otherwise use in any way BBC Online Services and/or BBC
> Content in whole or in part except to the extent permitted in these
> Terms of Use, any relevant Additional Terms and at law."
>
> If I'm downloading pages automatically and automatically reading certain
> sections of the HTML, is that viewing it as supplied to me by the BBC?

I'm no lawyer, but on the face of it I would say we're clear.

"as supplied to you by the BBC" says to me that it mustn't be modified,
not that it mustn't be stored.

Rob





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