PID reverse look-up

[Vangelis forthnet]

On Thu Jan 5 08:18:53 GMT 2017, Shevek wrote: 

> On 5 January 2017 at 08:06, Simon Morgan <s.morgan at skm.org.uk> wrote:
>>
> My question is can I find out what programme a particular PID refers to?
> 
> Go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/<PID> in your browser 

Simon, you can always use GiP itself to query a PID string: 

get_iplayer --pid=<PID> -i

The PID string is unique to a BBC prog, be it radio or TV or 
whatever else (online video/audio clip), the metadata associated
 with it remains on line even after the prog has expired from iPlayer.

But, since a browser is most likely to be running on a system, 
Shevek's suggestion is more practical; TBH, I had long ago 
myself bookmarked 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/pid
in my browser (Firefox); invoking it of course results in a 
"Sorry, that page was not found" message, but overwriting 
"pid" in the address bar with the actual string and clicking the 
"go" arrow gets me to where I want to go easily...

Incidentally, 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes
informs me that a staggering total of 
3,602,487 TV+Radio programmes 
(increasing as I write...) have been 
catalogued there... 

Kindest regards, 
Vangelis.