FAO BBC: Same Series and Episode, Differents PIDs and Description.

Alan Milewczyk alan at soulman1949.com
Thu Mar 8 03:03:38 PST 2018


On 08/03/2018 18:02, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> Hi,
>
> There's been much weirdness recently in get_iplayer's tv.cache due to
> what's being published by the BBC AFAICS.
>
> The latest example, I have some older more complex ones to write up, is
> PIDs b09wc2m1 and b09wbylq are both S02E01 of _The Repair Shop_, but
> with different descriptions.  The `short' one is
>
>      b09wc2m1: Antique photography expert Brenton West repairs a camera
>      that survived World War I.
>
>      b09wbylq: A Boulle-work clock, a much-loved wheeled elephant and a
>      300-year-old desk are in the shop
>
> This confusion is also present on the BBC's site.
>
>      http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09wc2m1
>      http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09wbylq
>
There's more of the same sort of confusion at 
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08l581p/episodes/guide where there 
appear to be duplicated numbered episodes which have different PIDs. 
Very odd.


A


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