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[Don Grunbaum]

On 2020-09-28 13:45, Dave Widgery wrote:
> Hi
> A few years ago I had a problem due to a disk crash I lost all my
> history, some nice person on this group told me where to comment a
> line out the perl script so I could run get_iplayer and populate my
> history file without actually downloading everything,
> 
> Maybe you could do the same then run get_iplayer as if to download all
> the storyville episodes, you could then just edit the history file and
> remove the entries for the programs you actually want then run
> get_iplayer again after you have uncommented the line.
> 
> Unfortunately I cannot remember which line to comment out, I have had
> a look in the perl script and cannot work out which line it would be,
> but maybe some other helpful person who understands how the script
> works could point you in the right direction, in fact it would be
> useful to have a switch on the command line to be able to do this,
> there have been several occasions I would l have liked to do a dummy
> run on a download without actually downloading anything.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
> On Mon, 28 Sep 2020 at 11:41, Chris Walker
> <cdw_pcmail at the-walker-household.co.uk> wrote:
>> 
>> Hopefully somebody can help me with this problem.
>> 
>> I'm trying to avoid downloading any Storyville programmes older than
>> this year. I thought that if I included a search for <firstbcastyear> 
>> of
>> 2020 that would do it but looking at the subparams page on github I 
>> see
>> that field is not included in the listformat.
>> 
>> So is there any way to avoid grabbing old versions of Storyville or
>> should I simply resort to manually grabbing any episodes I might want?
>> 
>> I have considered some form of regex on the info but don't have a clue
>> where to start!
>> 
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There is a --mark-downloaded option to populate the history file without 
actually downloading. Use that with the series pid and pid-recursive to 
mark all episodes as downloaded, then use a text editor or similar to 
remove all entries with first broadcast year of 2020.

Then rerun with the series pid and pid-recursive to download the 2020 
episodes.

That should work - I hope! I haven't tested it.

Don