"ERROR: Failed to download URL "

[Dave Lambley]

> On 03/13/2021 1:50 PM Mark Carroll <mtbc at ixod.org> wrote:
> 
>  
> On 13 Mar 2021, mable syrup wrote:
> 
> > Started getting these recently for TV programmes.  Anyone know:
> > (1) Whether there's a fix in the offing?
> > (2) Do I need to report as an issue on Github?
> > (3) Is there a workaround?
> 
> I have not noticed any indication that anything other than useful bugfix
> PRs is presently welcomed by the maintainer. Reports of issues tend to
> be summarily closed. We hope and wait for fixes and, at least for major
> issues, generally they come promptly, which is great. If you know some
> Perl, the source code is quite amenable to local adjustments.

There is no-one maintaining get-iplayer at the moment. GitHub has been configured to automatically close issues with no human intervention. dinkypumpkin does say that if you have a bug fix, he will merge it, but new features won't be merged unless you wish to take over as maintainer.

See https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/commit/34f400ac391bdc1880362420b266d349b86621c7 and https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/contribute#code

Dave