'5 Live Science' not being found to download

MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News news at macfh.co.uk
Mon Apr 18 07:17:17 PDT 2022


On 18/04/2022 13:53, Mark Carroll wrote:
>
> On 18 Apr 2022, MacFH wrote:
>> 
>> 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
> (snip)
>> ... 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?
> 
> https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer says, "podcasts directly via
> PID or URL". Indeed, for the latest, if I try,
> 
> 	get_iplayer --pid=p0c1g25k
> 
> then it downloads just fine. Hope that helps.

Oh yes, I can download them via the PID, indeed have already done so, 
but that requires a specific extra command over and above my daily run 
which searches for, among other things, 'Science'.  Further, I'd have to 
look up the PID of each new episode, because if I try ...
	--type radio --pid p02pc9ny --pid-recursive
... it finds all the previous versions before April this year that I've 
already downloaded, listened to, and then deleted, and I don't want to 
waste my bandwith downloading 550 or so programmes that I've already heard.

What I was asking is how to make GiP *find* them for itself?



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