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GetiPlayerAutomator / get-iplayer-automator

Moved to https://github.com/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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Unable to download iPlayer programmes (GiA broken by BBC changes) #612

Closed thomasp132 closed 7 years ago

thomasp132 commented 7 years ago

When I try to download programmes from iPlayer, the download fails and I get the following error in the logs. The programme can be watched on iPlayer.

I'm using version 1.8.7 of Get iPlayer Automator, on OSX 10.11.6. It seemed to work fine last week, and nothing to my knowledge has changed.

"INFO: Loading proxy settings...
INFO: No proxy to load
INFO: Proxy load complete.
INFO: No proxy will be used

AppController: Starting Downloads

Downloading Show 1/1:

BBC Download (ID=b08jns7r): Downloading Robot Wars: Series 9 - Episode 2
INFO: pid found in cache
5367:   Robot Wars: Series 9 - Episode 2, BBC Two, , default
INFO: 1 Matching Programmes
WARNING: Could not download programme metadata from http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08jns7r.xml
ERROR: Failed to get version pid metadata from iplayer site
BBC Download (ID=b08jns7r): Robot Wars: Series 9 - Episode 2 Failed

AppController: Downloads Finished"
dinkypumpkin commented 7 years ago

The BBC has removed some data sources necessary for get_iplayer to work. The problem also affects programme indexing and cache refresh. It may be a temporary situation, but there is no way to know for sure what they are doing. For the moment, just don't use GiA for iPlayer programmes (ITV programmes shouldn't be affected). There will be an announcement here if/when the BBC data returns.

EDIT: Thread locked to avoid me-toos and hijackers.

dinkypumpkin commented 7 years ago

Normal service resumed.