A utility for grabbing tv and radio from BBC iPlayer. Phil Lewis has stopped developed it so I've forked it.
Home Page: http://linuxcentre.net/get_iplayer-dropped-in-response-to-bbcs-lack-of-support-for-open-source
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
get_iplayer -- tool for accessing tv and radio from BBC iPlayer. The BBC currently only provides two choices for accessing iPlayer content from a regular machine, either through it's windows desktop client or through adobe flash. There are apps for the iPhone and other devices and some set top boxes as well. What the BBC do not cater for are people who use alternative operating systems or who do not wish to use the BBC's selected technologies (which, frankly, should be anyone not running windows since flash's performance is atrocious). The BBC have a well documented platform neutrality policy which they seem to be reluctant to keep themselves to and after repeated digs at open source, I thought we'd show them what open source can do. So get hacking! PROMETHEUS The original get_iplayer code is a mess. I initially began to gradually refactor it but encountered severe problems, largely owing to lexical scoping and variables being shared through scopes. I gave up and started rewriting it instead. The original script is still there as 'get_iplayer' and i reverted it to the last version that Phil released. Prometheus is the next generation of get_iplayer. It won't steal fire from the Gods, but it may enable you to use get_iplayer on a non-bbc-supported platform. Also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ryd_p20XEU
As noted in #4 it seems get_iplayer doesn't currently support video/mp4 streams served via over rtmp from akamai hosts.
Currently BBC One is using these to serve live coverage of their World Cup footage.
$ curl http://www.bbc.co.uk/emp/simulcast/bbc_one_london.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!-- bbc_one_london.html r13490 -->
<playlist xmlns="http://bbc.co.uk/2008/emp/playlist" revision="1">
<config>
<plugin name="iPlayerLiveStats"/>
<plugin name="spacesReporting"/>
</config>
<id>tag:bbc.co.uk,2009:simulcast:bbc_one_london:playlist</id>
<link rel="alternate" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcone/"/>
<title>BBC One</title>
<summary>-</summary>
<link rel="holding" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/images/tv/bbc_one_london_640_360.jpg" width="640" height="360" type="image/jpeg"/>
<updated>2009-09-24T12:10:00Z</updated>
<item kind="programme" live="true" simulcast="true" identifier="bbc_one_london" group="bbc_one_london">
<id>tag:bbc.co.uk,2009:simulcast:bbc_one_london</id>
<service id="bbc_one_london" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc_one_london">BBC One London</service>
<masterbrand id="bbc_one" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/bbc_one">BBC One</masterbrand>
<media kind="video" width="688" height="386" bitrate="1500" type="video/mp4" encoding="h264">
<connection kind="akamai" application="live" identifier="bbc1_inlet_1500@s13633" server="cp80627.live.edgefcs.net" tokenIssuer="akamaiUk" />
</media>
<media kind="video" width="640" height="360" bitrate="800" type="video/mp4" encoding="h264">
<connection kind="akamai" application="live" identifier="bbc1_inlet_800@s13632" server="cp80627.live.edgefcs.net" tokenIssuer="akamaiUk" />
</media>
<media kind="video" width="640" height="360" bitrate="480" type="video/mp4" encoding="h264">
<connection kind="akamai" application="live" identifier="bbc1_inlet_500@s13631" server="cp80627.live.edgefcs.net" tokenIssuer="akamaiUk" />
</media>
</item>
</playlist>
It would be nice if we could work out what else is needed to support these. I've tried commenting out the skip and using latest rtmpdump, but without success thus far.
is the project finished? im a java developer and could help.
The flashaudio mode of radio programs is no longer working. I can download the audio if I switch same programme to realaudio.
The error I get is:
FLVStreamer v2.1c1
(c) 2010 Andrej Stepanchuk, Howard Chu, The Flvstreamer Team; license: GPL
Connecting ...
ERROR: rtmp server sent error
ERROR: rtmp server requested close
INFO: Command exit code 1 (raw code = 256)
WARNING: Failed to stream file /home/ode79/listen/radio/Mark_Steels_in_Town_Series_2_-_4._Penzance_b00s3gq5_default.partial.mp3.flv via RTMP
INFO: skipping flashaudio1 mode
ERROR: Failed to record 'Mark Steel's in Town: Series 2 - 4. Penzance (b00s3gq5)'
currently get_iplayer simply silently ignores akamai video streams on the livetv channels
these are currently being used by BBC One's live streaming of World Cup matches.
A simple patch to at least output a proper warning when these are found is available here:
oldmanuk@a0141163ea77cc0e621a4f9f7c848edf68fc52af
This isn't an issue with the program (I don't think), but I think it may be a common source of errors preventing it running - in searching for the solution I found others with the same and thought it might be a good idea to save others time doing so in future.
Running the get_iplayer.pl script (renamed since the instructions were written to just get_iplayer) errored out because of use HTML::Entities and use HTTP::Cookies
Just for the info of anyone else trying to use this, the modules can be obtained via a package manager from within libhtml-parser-perl and libhttp-parser-perl (i.e. with sudo apt-get install ...) respectively
http://code.google.com/p/get-iplayer/
It might make more sense to combine efforts.
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