'5 Live Science' not being found to download

MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News news at macfh.co.uk
Mon Apr 18 04:38:19 PDT 2022


Since the beginning of April the above programme has not been downloaded 
by GiP, as follows:

 > perl <path>\get_iplayer.pl --profile-dir=<path> --type radio "5 Live 
Science" -g

get_iplayer v3.29, Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Phil Lewis
   This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details use 
--warranty.
   This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under 
certain
   conditions; use --conditions for details.

Matches:
30065:  5 Live Science - Buying Breast Milk Online, BBC Radio 5 live, 
m00161g8
30066:  5 Live Science - Science in Film, BBC Radio 5 live, m001682t
30067:  5 Live Science - Hot Cross Puns: Easter Science Q & A, BBC Radio 
5 live, m0016jdn
INFO: 3 matching programmes

WARNING: No media streams found for requested programme versions and 
recording modes.
WARNING: The programme may no longer be available - check the iPlayer or 
Sounds site.
WARNING: The programme may only be available in an unsupported format 
(e.g., Flash) - check the iPlayer or Sounds site.
WARNING: If you use a VPN/VPS/Smart DNS/web proxy, it may have been blocked.

[repeated for the other two episodes]

Going on to the BBC website reveals that the above programme IDs lead to 
pages saying 'Sorry, this episode is not currently available", for 
example ...

     https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0016jdn

... but clicking the podcast tab on that page reveals that there are 
so-called 'podcast' editions of the missing programmes available ...

     https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02pc9ny/episodes/downloads

How can I make GiP find these 'podcast' versions as well as or instead 
of the 'normal' downloads which are no longer being made available? 
(The above command-line with the --type parameter excluded or set to 
'podcast' both fail.)




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