Accessing programmes more than a week old?

[Simon Morgan]

-----Original Message-----
From: get_iplayer [mailto:get_iplayer-bounces at lists.infradead.org] On Behalf
Of Nicholas Youell
Sent: 27 October 2014 09:30
To: get_iplayer at lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: Accessing programmes more than a week old?

I have this issue too...

In my case I was trying to retrieve a radio show 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04l065l

I can listen to it via iplayer online. But 

get_iplayer --type=radio --pid=b04l065l 

[nik at FC20-YEWS Downloads]$ get_iplayer --type=radio --pid=b04l065l
get_iplayer v2.86, 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.

INFO: Episode-only pid detected
INFO: Trying pid: b04l065l using type: radio
INFO: Trying to stream pid using type radio
INFO: pid not found in radio cache
WARNING: No programmes are available for this pid with version(s):
default

This program is only 15 days old

On Mon, 2014-10-27 at 09:04 +0000, Simon Morgan wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: get_iplayer [mailto:get_iplayer-bounces at lists.infradead.org] On 
> Behalf Of Chris Marriott
> Sent: 27 October 2014 08:22
> To: get_iplayer at lists.infradead.org
> Subject: Accessing programmes more than a week old?
> 
> Apologies - this is slightly OT for the list, but perhaps someone 
> knows the answer.
> 
> I was under the impression that iPlayer had been updated to allow the 
> playing of programmes more than a week old, now, but when I go to the 
> iPlayer web site, and select a TV channel, the list of dates along the 
> top of the page still only allows me to view programmes less than a 
> week old. Is there a way to go back further, or has the extension to 
> 30 days not yet happened?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Chris
> 
> 
> 
--------------------------------------------------------------------

Install the latest version of get_iplayer and read this (i.e. us pid)

https://github.com/dinkypumpkin/get_iplayer/wiki/faq

Simon Morgan