Hi all, I'm interested in analysing the iPlayer database so I'm working with the tv.cache file (going to bring it into Tableau to do some visualisations). I've read the file into R, and exported it as a .csv file (using "|" as the delimeter). However, some of the columns have me baffled - most make sense, e.g. "name" refers to title of series/film, "episode" refers to the episode, etc. Some weren't clear to begin with, but I figured out, e.g. "duration" uses seconds as the unit, so all you have to do is divide by 60 to get the duration in minutes. However, one column that doesn't make sense to me is "expires". Here's an example of the data: 1561382400.

Does anyone know what unit this is using? The title in question supposedly expires in 11 days (according to its page on the iPlayer). It would also be helpful if someone could point me in the direction of any further information about the data stored in the cache, assuming it exists?

i am using the command line to download tv and radio successfully. recently i noticed that podcasts are available for some shows but i don't know how to download them from the command line.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0005k5.../downloads

this is called may contain nuts and hopefully somebody will be able to help me download the podcasts

please be gentle i have huntingtons disease and it affects my ability to think

thank you

After a recent Windows 10 update to 1903, I am seeing this error when I try to lauch WebPVR:
Unable to create server socket: Permission denied at C:\Program Files (x86)\get_iplayer\get_iplayer.cgi line 278

I found an old thread about this problem and I have tried the following without success:
1. Uninstalling get_iplayer, restarting, installing latest get_iplayer (3.20)
2. Checked that perl.exe was an allowed app in the firewall
3. Used netstat to check that nothing else was using port 1935
4. Set shortcut to run as administrator

Any other ideas why this may be happening?

Colin

Seems odd for this to happen. Have I misconfigured something somewhere to get a benign apostrophe to be replaced with a euro (brexit, anyone? :) )

this is a minor issue, but it seems that unless the next *.tracks.txt file is fully processed (or the complete run is done), one cannot move/delete the current tracks file. if there are 10 programs to be downloaded without a tracks file, one has to wait that long before the file handle gets released. Not a big problem, but quite a nuisance :)

Hey all,

As someone who's using this fantastic program to get mostly news programmes from the BBC, does anyone know if the 'get_iplayer --pid=' has a 'time' cap variable? Some news programmes are more than 4 hours long and I sometimes only want the first 30 minutes. I can't always record live.

'get_iplayer --pid something --tstop=t30' for example? I'd appreciate any replies, thanks.

Can you use Get_Iplayer to download programs from the BBC Sounds section on their Site?

One of my machines, (WIN 10) no longer works using a CLI download.
I have tried uninstall and reinstall of V3.20 but still getting the following result. Other machines are working normally. This machine appears to work normally on all other apps and connects to
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer

Command:

Quote:get_iplayer --tvmode=good --pid m00031ft

Quote:get_iplayer 3.20.0-MSWin32, 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.



ERROR: Failed to download URL (3/3): https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00031ft.json
ERROR: Response: 500 Can't connect to www.bbc.co.uk:443 (Invalid argument)
ERROR: Ignore this error if programme download is successful
WARNING: Failed to download JSON PID info: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00031ft.json
WARNING: Could not determine PID type (m00031ft). Trying to record PID directly.
Episodes:
get_iplayer - m00031ft, BBC iPlayer, m00031ft
INFO: 1 total programmes


ERROR: Failed to download URL (3/3): https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00031ft.json
ERROR: Response: 500 Can't connect to www.bbc.co.uk:443 (Invalid argument)
ERROR: Ignore this error if programme download is successful
WARNING: Could not download programme metadata from https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00031ft.json

ERROR: Failed to download URL (3/3): https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00031ft/playlist.json
ERROR: Response: 500 Can't connect to www.bbc.co.uk:443 (Invalid argument)
ERROR: Ignore this error if programme download is successful

ERROR: Failed to download URL (3/3): https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m00031ft/
ERROR: Response: 500 Can't connect to www.bbc.co.uk:443 (Invalid argument)
ERROR: Ignore this error if programme download is successful

ERROR: Failed to download URL (3/3): https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m00031ft/ad
ERROR: Response: 500 Can't connect to www.bbc.co.uk:443 (Invalid argument)
ERROR: Ignore this error if programme download is successful

ERROR: Failed to download URL (3/3): https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m00031ft/sign
ERROR: Response: 500 Can't connect to www.bbc.co.uk:443 (Invalid argument)
ERROR: Ignore this error if programme download is successful
WARNING: No programmes are available for this PID with version(s): default

Hi,

it seems that my get-iplayer install on raspbian has broken. I have a fully up to date Stretch on a Raspberry pi 3

When trying to run get_iplayer, I get a Segmentation fault.

Quote:pi@raspberrypi:~ $ get_iplayer
   invalid subsection length 67108898, max allowed 34
Segmentation fault

Quote:pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo apt-get install get-iplayer
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
 id3v2 libid3-3.8.3v5 libmp3-info-perl libunicode-string-perl rtmpdump
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following NEW packages will be installed:
 get-iplayer
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/143 kB of archives.
After this operation, 544 kB of additional disk space will be used.
   invalid subsection length 67108898, max allowed 34
Segmentation fault
Selecting previously unselected package get-iplayer.
(Reading database ... 138595 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../get-iplayer_3.20-ppa33~stable_all.deb ...
Unpacking get-iplayer (3.20-ppa33~stable) ...
Setting up get-iplayer (3.20-ppa33~stable) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.6.1-2) ...
/usr/bin/gdbus: error while loading shared libraries: libgmodule-2/0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

using Win10 v1809 build 17763.437 64bit
latest gip 3.20.0
in the UK

GIP working fine for radio and TV, except for this one programme alone:

"
C:\Users\Username>get_iplayer --type=radio --pid=m00040hk
get_iplayer 3.20.0-MSWin32, 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.


Episodes:
Profile - Andrew Moffat, BBC iPlayer, m00040hk
INFO: 1 total programmes

INFO: No versions of this programme were selected (available versions: podcast2)
"
Programme can be downloaded direct from website as an mp3 (not via GIP).

Verbose version follows