JSON BBC schedule data

[Peter Scott]

On 16.03.2025 16.10, Mike Crowe wrote:
> 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.
>
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Hi Mike,

I wrote this years ago and announced it on this list:

      https://github.com/cmsps/getPids

There is another tool at github called chkNew but I have just this 
minute found the beeb have changed their html and stopped it working 
perfectly.

Peter