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Ascoware / get-iplayer-automator

The goal of Get iPlayer Automator is to allow iTunes and your Mac to become the hub for your British Television experience regardless of where in the world you are. Currently, Get iPlayer Automator allows you to download and watch BBC and ITV shows on your Mac. Series-Link/PVR functionality ensures you will never miss your favourite shows. Programmes are fully tagged and added to iTunes automatically upon completion. It is simple and easy to use, and runs on any machine running Mac OS X 10.7 or later. And since the shows are in iTunes, it is extremely easy to transfer them to your iPod, iPhone, or Apple TV allowing you to enjoy your shows on the go or on your television.
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Enhancement: Way for GiA to recognise "BBC iPlayer only" shows #181

Closed ghost closed 6 years ago

ghost commented 6 years ago

Some BBC iPlayer shows are not on BBC 1, 2 etc but just on the iPlayer.

I can download these with <cmd><g> manually, but is there a way to get them to be seen in the PVR (using "*" as the TV Network doesn't work).

skovatch commented 6 years ago

This is something get_iplayer would need to add. The PVR has to look for programs in the cache to do its job, but get_iplayer needs a starting point so it knows where to scrape the HTML to find the program data.

skovatch commented 6 years ago

I suspect, though, that they won't do it. The documentation on searching makes it clear that they "only search for programmes that were scheduled for broadcast on BBC linear services within the previous 30 days, even if some are available for more than 30 days on the iPlayer site. BBC Three programmes, iPlayer exclusives, and BBC podcasts are not searchable. Old programmes that are still available after 30 days must be located on the iPlayer site and downloaded directly via PID or URL."

I will change the "Get Current Webpage" so it doesn't obliterate the metadata we did find.

ghost commented 6 years ago

closed against #182