BBC JSON feeds to be discontinued from 1st May

RS richard22j at zoho.com
Fri Apr 13 12:54:45 PDT 2018


On 13/04/18 18:21, tellyaddict wrote:
> Thanks Peter.
> The question is though, once the JSON feeds do go, where will GiP get the VPIDs from? It needs these to access the playlists to start a download? Will GiP have to start scraping iPlayer programme pages to get these?
> 
>> I didn't know JSON feeds were still available.  I updated my getPids
>> script to use the HTML feeds some time ago.  It still works; you can get
>> it here:
>>
>>        https://github.com/cmsps/getPids
> 
I thought get_iplayer was already doing that, and the reason for the 
upgrade to v3.13 recently was that the format of the HTML programme 
pages had changed.  Have I misunderstood?

Best wishes
Richard




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