Quacks - iPlayer release before broadcast

[RS]

>From: Ralph Corderoy
>Sent: Monday, August 21, 2017 14:04

>I've lost the plot a bit.  You're saying that your tv.cache contains all
>the episodes of _Quacks_ and that you can download any of them now if
>you explicitly give the --pid $pid?  Episode two here says it's
>available tomorrow, but if it could be downloaded now then you need a
>way to ignore that `available' time.

Hi Ralph

Not quite.  A programme does not need to be in the cache to be downloaded. 
Some metadata may not be available, but most of the time get_iplayer can 
retrieve it from other sources.  In this case I can download the episodes 
one at a time using the episode PIDs.  I can download all the episodes using 
the series PID and --pid-recursive.

If I don't know how to find  PIDs, or more particularly how to 
use --pid-recursive, or just want get_iplayer to do the work for me, I would 
use a search string.
get_iplayer quacks --type tv

At present without any change in the date that will only find the first 
episode.  If I look in tv.cache.old, which is the state of the cache before 
I changed the date this morning, there is only one occurrence of "Quacks". 
If I look in tv.cache, refreshed after changing the date to 23 August, there 
are two occurrences of "Quacks" for the first two episodes.

If I now do the same search get_iplayer finds the first 2 episodes but not 
all 6.

The first question is whether it is safe to change the date to 5 weeks 
ahead.  I suspect the answer is No.

The next question is whether get_iplayer supports programmes' being made 
available in the iPlayer up to 6 weeks before broadcast or whether that is a 
request for a new feature.

The third question is if get_iplayer does already support it, what the 
commands are.

Best wishes
Richard