THE BBC HAS BLOWN UP TV LISTING FEEDS (WITH WORKAROUND)

[John Warburton]

Yes, of course. Here is the command line:

$ get_iplayer --type=livetv --stream 80002 --debug

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INFO: encodinglocale = UTF-8
INFO: encodinglocalefs = UTF-8
INFO: encodingconsoleout = UTF-8
INFO: encodingconsolein = UTF-8
INFO: ${^UNICODE} = 0
INFO: User prefs dir: /home/John/.get_iplayer
INFO: System options dir: /etc/get_iplayer/options
Current options:
        debug = 1
        encodingconsolein = UTF-8
        encodingconsoleout = UTF-8
        encodinglocale = UTF-8
        encodinglocalefs = UTF-8
        nowrite = 1
        stdout = 1
        type = livetv
        verbose = 1

INFO: Search args: '80002'
DEBUG: Looking for index 80002 in livetv type
INFO: Additionally getting cached programme data for livetv
INFO: Cache format from existing livetv cache file:
index,type,name,pid,available,episode,seriesnum,episodenum,versions,duration,desc,channel,categories,thumbnail,timeadded,guidance,web
INFO: Got 10 file cache entries for livetv
DEBUG: Cache expiry time for livetv is 14400 secs - refresh in 2780 secs
DEBUG: Using desktop user-agent string: 'Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE
9.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/5.0; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR
3.0.30729; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 6.0)'
DEBUG: Using NoCookies user-agent 'Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0;
Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/5.0; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR
3.0.30729; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 6.0)'
Matches:
80002:  BBC News - live

INFO: 1 Matching Programmes
DEBUG: Using desktop user-agent string: 'Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE
9.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/5.0; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR
3.0.30729; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 6.0)'
DEBUG: Using cookies.desktop user-agent 'Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE
9.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/5.0; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR
3.0.30729; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 6.0)'
DEBUG: Getting Metadata for bbc_news24:
INFO: iPlayer metadata URL = http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/playlist/bbc_news24
INFO: Getting page http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/playlist/bbc_news24
ERROR: Failed to get version pid metadata from iplayer site

ERROR: Could not get version pid metadata
ERROR: Could not get programme metadata