Hi Charles, > ..works on pid urls (i was much amused to find) > > youtube-dl 'http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08pgswt' Yes, it's this extractor https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/youtube_dl/extractor/bbc.py -- Cheers, Ralph. https://plus.google.com/+RalphCorderoy