Hi

the "--since" now looks at time based on cache age. Why not make it based on the "actual program broadcast time". In the current situation, the problem is as follows.

I usually use get_iplayer to download only today's (I mean here "day" like current day - monday, tuesday...friday) podcast of the program "Radio 4-Best of Today". Assume I did NOT refresh on thurday, friday, saturday and sunday. Now on Monday, when I refresh, it assumes all podcasts from Thu-Monday as NEW and downloads them.

I would like the "--since" parameter, to use "available" (which is date) to look for what programs to download. For example if you take the file podcast.cache:




The variable is then "available"=Wed, 27 May 2015 07:53:00 +0100
If this is possible, then one could search for programs between date ???? -> ????, instead of cache age.

Many thanks for your great work!

PS:

Ok, after a bit of trying I can do this for "radio" in a different way (but not for podcasts)

--refresh-limit-radio 1 --refresh-feeds=schedule --type=radio "today

The option addresses a different issue, so its meaning is not going to change. As to whether a new option is merited for your use case, I'm personally unconvinced. The audience would be users who want to download the current day's episodes from a daily podcast but don't want to type a second command to do so. That's too narrow for me to expend any effort, but someone else might be motivated enough. An additional problem is that the format of values in the podcast cache doesn't lend itself to comparisons, though someone could change that. However, that format allows you to employ regular expressions to do exactly what you want. For example, to get only Monday's episodes: