BBC videos outside main iPlayer site

[James Herbert]

Vangelis,

Thank you for your detailed and comprehensive answer. Exactly what I
needed and very much appreciated!

Best wishes,

James

On 29 August 2016 at 02:23, Vangelis forthnet
<northmedia1 at the.forthnet.gr> wrote:
> On Mon Aug 29 01:29:16 BST 2016, James Herbert wrote:
>>
>> I know this may be a really silly question. Can get_iplayer be used to
>> download videos such as the one at the bottom of this page?
>
>
> Hello James and welcome to the list :-)
>
> Why do you reckon your question might be silly? The truth of the matter is
> that the code maintainer of GiP has only left limited support for embedded
> audio/video BBC clips, apart from content on the main iPlayer TV/Radio
> pages.
> (Some) BBC News & BBC Sports clips are still supported in the latest GiP
> 2.96 but downloading those clips is now a deprecated feature and the coder
> has stated that when the beeb breaks it again, no more effort will be
> undertaken on his part to restore that broken GiP functionality...
>
>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/guides/z8d2mp3/revision/3
>>
>> I've tried searching for that short code and URL using the web PVR but to
>> no avail.
>
>
> Since the "Bitesize" pages are not supported, what you need to realise is
> that in order for GiP to fetch such a clip, it has to be fed the clip's PID;
> unfortunately, this is not always a straightforward task... :-(
> With flash installed, when you right-click the player you sometimes get the
> video's PID; but not in this case:
> p0233186 / programme / 0
>
> The first string is the versionPID (vpid), it's still useful for downloading
> streams but not with GiP; you would need the second string (after
> "programme"), but in this case it's empty...
>
> A sure way to retrieve the clip's PID is by scavenging the Page Source
> (accessing page source varies depending on browser used...).
> Then search Page Source for "pid"; the first instance matched will give you
> the clip's PID:
> data-pid="p023317q"
>
> => --pid=p023317q
>
> Using the retrieved PID you can access that clip's main iplayer page:
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p023317q
>
> You can use that URL in the Web PVR Manager's "Quick URL" input field to
> download it or use the CLI to fetch (I don't use the GUI myself...):
> get_iplayer --type=tv --pid=p023317q --modes=hlsbest
> (fetches hlsvhigh1 - if you prefer flashmodes, use --modes=flashbest).
>
> Regards, Vangelis.
>
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