BBC Collections

[Vangelis forthnet]

 On Mon Oct 9 19:25:21 BST 2017, I wrote:

> On Mon Oct 9 08:21:19 BST 2017, Mike Casswell wrote:
>
>> at BBC Collections locations such as
>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/group/p056n6px
>>
>> This method has worked in the past for
>> apparently similar collections -
>> but note the use of 'group' in the url
>> which I do not recall from previous examples.
>
>  Hi Mike... I don't think "group PIDs" were ever
> supported in GiP, only "brand" and "series" ones...
> so it might have been a brand/series page that has
> worked for you in the past...

 ... Well, it turns out that you were right and,
still, I am right, too!
Just came across the following "group" listing:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/group/b096k7q7

 Unlike your previous example (group being
an assortment of different programmes), this
"group PID" does work with --pid-recursive
because it's actually a series PID (you can tell
because all members of the group are
individual episodes of the same series):

get_iplayer --type=tv --pid=b096k7q7 --pid-recursive -i =>

INFO: Series or Brand PID detected
INFO: BBC Four - The Vietnam War - Available now
INFO: Page 1 of 1
INFO:     Series 1, Things Fall Apart (January 1968-June 1968) (b097ts0d)
INFO:     Series 1, This Is What We Do (July 1967-December 1967) (b097ts0b)
INFO:     Series 1, Doubt (January 1966-June 1967) (b096v3f2)
INFO:     Series 1, Hell Come to Earth (January 1964-December 1965) 
(b096v3dw)
INFO:     Series 1, Riding the Tiger (1961-1963) (b096k948)
INFO:     Series 1, Deja Vu (1858-1961) (b096k8wz)

I hope this makes it clearer now...

Cheers,
Vangelis.