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• Linux/BSD
  • Package installation
  • Manual installation
• macOS
• Windows
• Source code
• Requirements
  • Perl
  • External programs

The source code for the latest get_iplayer release can be downloaded as a tarball or zip archive from:

https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/releases/latest

get_iplayer runs on Linux/BSD (Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenBSD and others), macOS (10.10+), Windows (7/8/10).

• Perl 5.16+ is required

Perl modules (with dependencies) required for get_iplayer:

• LWP - HTTP access to BBC servers
• LWP::Protocol::https - HTTPS support for LWP
• Mojolicious - Web toolkit
  • get_iplayer 3.27 or higher is required with Mojolicious 9.0+.
• XML::LibXML - Subtitles formatting and HTML parsing for page scraping
• CGI - Web PVR Manager (included with Perl 5.20 and earlier)

Perl modules used on Windows only:

• Win32 - desktop access
• Win32::Unicode - Unicode text in tags

get_iplayer employs external programs to convert and tag media files:

• AtomicParsley - Metadata tagging for MP4 and M4A files.
• ffmpeg - Converts MPEG-DASH and MPEG-TS streams to MP4 and M4A.

get_iplayer will run without these external programs, but downloaded files will be left in their raw streaming formats and metadata tags will not be created.

NOTE: Web server deployment is not supported for get_iplayer or Web PVR Manager. You may be able to deploy them in your environment, but such installations are not supported by the developers.