I upgraded to 3.00 from 2.94 and now have a bunch of reference issues with the program names and episodes. I started with:

Quote:get_iplayer --cache-init --type="tv,radio"

 When I do a get_iplayer --refresh --type="tv,radio" I get:

Quote:...

17817:  radio, XML::LibXML::Text=SCALAR(0x55de870) - XML::LibXML::Text=SCALAR(0x3fedc50), BBC World Service, p050kvwt
17818:  radio, XML::LibXML::Text=SCALAR(0x55de8a0) - XML::LibXML::Text=SCALAR(0x55de330), BBC World Service, p050sksq

INFO: 7838 Matching Programmes

The web interface shows the same.  Interesting though, the description and channel fields are OK:

Record
Queue
Add Series
[Image: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/images/epis...150_84.jpg]
tv
XML::LibXML::Text=SCALAR(0x252dd80): XML::LibXML::Text=SCALAR(0x2e27630)
XML::LibXML::Text=SCALAR(0x20cff10)
Baby Jake and Captain Spacey go on a space adventure and play at space painting.
CBeebies

0d 19h ago

OS is RHEL 6.9:

cat /etc/redhat-release
Scientific Linux release 6.9 (Carbon)

Any ideas?

Thanks

Update XML::LibXML Perl module to latest version

OK, thanks for the quick response.  Unfortunately my OS package already is up to date:

Quote:yum list perl*XML                
Installed Packages                                        
perl-XML-LibXML.x86_64                                                            1:1.70-5.el6                                                     @sl

and

Quote:yum upgrade perl*XML
No Packages marked for Update

...but I am guessing this isn't new enough.

CPAN is the normal answer but the machine I am running on doesn't have a compiler so this doesn't work either:

Quote:cpan[1]> install XML::LibXML
Couldn't find your C compiler
Compilation failed in require at Makefile.PL line 94.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at Makefile.PL line 94.

I guess I will have to do some more work to get a build environment and keep you posted.

Version 1.70 appears to no longer be new enough, though I only discovered that after release when someone attempted to install on a long-dead macOS version. I'll have to raise the minimum required version in code, though I don't yet know what it should be.

Without a compiler, I fear you are stuck. If you can, I suggest you update all the get_iplayer-related Perl modules, and I think there is some native code pulled in under LWP as well.

I think I have a solution for this. The next release of get_iplayer should once again work with version 1.70.

Great news about the solution for 1.70.  In the meantime I did upgrade LibXML manually.  On my minimal RHEL install I needed to run:

Quote:yum remove perl-XML-LibXML
yum install libxml2-devel gcc
cpan -i XML::LibXML
cpan -i XML::SAX

Unfortunately that doesn't seem to have resolved the problem.  Some shows do have valid data but others still show the XML::LibXML objects.  This is the end of the ouptput from get_iplayer --refresh --type="tv,radio":


Any other thoughts?

EDIT: Just realized that the refresh might have just replaced the new content leaving the original stuff there. Would it be bad to run --cache-init again?

You can do --cache-init again, though I can say for sure it will clean up all the bad entries.

Well... I ran --cache-init again but it is still not perfect.  Here's some more output:


Fortunately looks like most stuff is OK.  Thanks again for this great tool.

You can try --cache-reset --refresh-limit=30 to rebuild the whole thing from scratch, but it will take a good while. Hardly worth it if no shows of interest are affected.