BBC 1 TV Schedules not downloading

MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News news at macfh.co.uk
Wed Jun 19 06:06:25 PDT 2024


On 12/06/2024 23:33, MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News wrote:
>
> As per subject, myself and at least one or two others are not able to
> obtain BBC 1 TV Schedules, what we see is this ...
>
> WARNING: Got 0 programmes for BBC One schedule page (HTML):
> https://www.bbc.co.uk/schedules/p00fzl6n/2024/w24
>
> WARNING: Failed to parse BBC One schedule page:
> https://www.bbc.co.uk/schedules/p00fzl6n/2024/w24
>
> Other channels seem fine.

Spent some time this morning investigating this a little further ...

The URL in the error message from GiP is of the form ...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/schedules/p00fzl6n/2024/w25

... and visiting the parent page at ...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/schedules/p00fzl6n

... shows only links to regional variations of the BBC1 schedules,
whereas if you substitute, say, the BBC4 pid ...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/schedules/p00fzl6b
https://www.bbc.co.uk/schedules/p00fzl6b/2024/w25

... you get pages populated with programme information.  Regional
variations for BBC1, for example London, seem to be unaffected ...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/schedules/p00fzl6p

On 15/6 I submitted a complaint to the BBC pointing out that pages of
the BBC1 national schedules were devoid of schedules, but have received
only the initial acknowledgement, and have heard nothing back since.



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