JSON BBC schedule data

[Mike Crowe]

I've been using https://github.com/schedules/ess to download daily BBC
radio schedules as JSON since 2018. In 2021 the GitHub Travis job that
automatically populated the tarball stopped working, so I started just
running the code myself and was happily doing so until yesterday.

As of 14th March 2025, it looks like the Nitro schedules are no longer
being updated. I just keep getting the schedule for 13th/14th. This can be
seen by visiting
https://ess.api.bbci.co.uk/schedules?serviceId=bbc_radio_four_extra .

My searching hasn't revealed another source of these schedules. Does anyone
know where to find JSON schedules or another way to turn service ids and
times into pids for use by get_iplayer?

Thanks.

Mike.