Unless I'm misunderstanding something, I think there might be a problem with the regex searching in programme names.

Here's the last few results from a query for some snooker:


Looks great. Except... that's as far as the regex will go, adding just one more whitespace to the end causes it to fail when based on perl regex, it should not.


As will searching for anything beyond that point in the name, e.g. I can't search for "Semi Final".


It feels like perhaps "Snooker: World Championship: 2018" is the programme name and thus searchable and the rest is something else that is concatenated with it, but I tried showing just the name field and that shows the same information, so it seems like the "Day 15 Semi-Finals, Morning..." stuff is part of the name.


So it's confusing that I can't regex on that. Any ideas?

Looks like they are different fields.

Using the Web Pvr interface I see...

Name : Snooker: World Championship: 2018
Episode : Day 3, Morning Session
Description : Masters champion Mark Allen aims to book his place in round two.

For ease, next time you can just use --info. For example:

get_iplayer --info --pid=b0b2q9dd

tv.cache is made up of fields the <space>-<space> is between the two fields name and episode.

Searching on fields name and episode, default is to search on the name field

$ get_iplayer --field name "Snooker: World Championship: 2018" --field episode "Day 15 Semi-Finals"
get_iplayer v3.13, 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.


Matches:
5951: Snooker: World Championship: 2018 - Day 15 Semi-Finals, Morning Session, BBC Two, b0b2q9dd
5952: Snooker: World Championship: 2018 - Day 15 Semi-Finals, Afternoon Session Part 2, BBC Two, b0b2q9dg
5953: Snooker: World Championship: 2018 - Day 15 Semi-Finals, Evening Session, BBC Two, b0b2q9dj
5958: Snooker: World Championship: 2018 - Day 15 Semi-Finals, Afternoon Session, BBC One, b0b2wxnf
INFO: 4 matching programmes

There is no character after the 2018 apart from end of string 2018\s finds nothing, 2018$ for name field or ^Day 15 work for field episode.

Fantastic. Thanks. My experiment using `--fields name` threw me off.

I combed through the docs again, but I can't find a way to intersect the results instead of union. Is there a way?

For example, say I only wanted the Semi-Final of the snooker.

Your first post's use of tail, shows that you know about piping.

How about filtering on one using get_iplayer then pipe the results through grep to filter on the other?

Would that help?

Yes, that is actually what I am doing. I do the basic search in get_iplayer, refine with grep, then extract the pids and get those. It's just a bit of hassle when get_iplayer does very nearly everything I want without having to use additional scripting.

Thanks anyway.

--field when there is a list then fields are separated by a space so try

You need to double up the backslashes. The shell is interpreting them first. So "Semi\sFinal" on the command line is passed to perl as SemisFinal. With doubling "Semi\\sFinal" is passed in as Semi\sFinal

(19-05-2018, 06:38 PM)You need to double up the backslashes

No, you don't. If that were true, the output above could not have been generated. If you think that is happening to you, follow our instructions to provide a proper report so we can see what is happening on your system. Identify your OS and shell.

(19-05-2018, 04:03 PM)--field when there is a list then fields are separated by a space so try

Code:

$ get_iplayer --field name,episode "Snooker.*\sSemi-Final"  

Thank you very much, this is exactly what I needed!