I'm trying to figure out a way of limiting Panorama programs to have original broadcast date >= 2012-01-01. Often, BBC releases archive Panorama programs, eg currently there's a Panorama program from 1966 and another from 1964. I'm not interested in these old programs and having very slow broadband I don't want to waste 1-1.5 hour(s) downloading each old episode I don't want.

What's the easiest way to achieve this? --available-since can't be used because they've been made available recently.

Here's an overview of the Panorama episodes:

get_iplayer --info --pid=b006t14n --pid-recursive | egrep "^firstbcastdate:|^title:"

You're headed in the right direction. Your goal is to filter out the 'pid:' fields for which the associated 'firstbcastdate:' field matches your criterion and then construct a comma-delimited list of PIDs to feed to --pid. awk can do this quite easily with a one-liner, but Perl or your favourite scripting language should be able to do the job as well. But if scripting is not in your skill set it might be quicker to just copy and paste the PIDs you want.

(06-02-2018, 12:37 PM)You're headed in the right direction. Your goal is to filter out the 'pid:' fields for which the associated 'firstbcastdate:' field matches your criterion and then construct a comma-delimited list of PIDs to feed to --pid.  awk can do this quite easily with a one-liner, but Perl or your favourite scripting language should be able to do the job as well. But if scripting is not in your skill set it might be quicker to just copy and paste the PIDs you want.

Thanks, I was hoping that there was something similar to --available-since/--expires-before for broadcast date that I had overlooked.

Perhaps it would be easier if I could proactively add the programs I don't want to download_history to mark them as downloaded, even though I haven't downloaded them. Is there an easy way to do this using get-iplayer or would I have to figure out all the fields for the line in download_history myself?

For this purpose, you only need to populate the first field (PID) in history records. The rest can be empty.

(07-02-2018, 01:33 PM)For this purpose, you only need to populate the first field (PID) in history records. The rest can be empty.

Perfect, many thanks.