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- Matthew Boyle
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3.00 | Updated: 02 May 2017
Downloads:
13,067
Downloads of v 3.00:
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Maintainer(s):
Software Author(s):
- Alexey Tourbin
- Andrew Elwell
- Andy Bircumshaw
- Bill Boughton
- Caius Durling
- Chris Reed
- BBR
- Crispin Flowerday
- David Woodhouse
- HenderHobbit
- James
- James Laver
- James Ross
- James Teh
- John Henderson
- Jon Davies
- Jonathan Harris
- Jonathan Larmour
- Jonathan Wiltshire
- Matthew Boyle
- Mike Crowe
- Mike Fleetwood
- Murray
- Phil Cole
- Ralf Baechle
- Sharon Kimble
- Shevek
- Steven Luo
- Stuart Henderson
- Vangelis forthnet
- Vangelis66
- Will Elwood
- dinkypumpkin
- fs ck
- fsck
- linuxcentrenet
- willemw12
getiplayer (Install) 3.00
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choco upgrade getiplayer -y --source="'INTERNAL REPO URL'" --version="'3.00'"
$exitCode = $LASTEXITCODE
Write-Verbose "Exit code was $exitCode"
$validExitCodes = @(0, 1605, 1614, 1641, 3010)
if ($validExitCodes -contains $exitCode) {
Exit 0
}
Exit $exitCode
- name: Install getiplayer
win_chocolatey:
name: getiplayer
version: '3.00'
source: INTERNAL REPO URL
state: present
See docs at https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/win_chocolatey_module.html.
chocolatey_package 'getiplayer' do
action :install
source 'INTERNAL REPO URL'
version '3.00'
end
See docs at https://docs.chef.io/resource_chocolatey_package.html.
cChocoPackageInstaller getiplayer
{
Name = "getiplayer"
Version = "3.00"
Source = "INTERNAL REPO URL"
}
Requires cChoco DSC Resource. See docs at https://github.com/chocolatey/cChoco.
package { 'getiplayer':
ensure => '3.00',
provider => 'chocolatey',
source => 'INTERNAL REPO URL',
}
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get_iplayer: BBC iPlayer Indexing Tool and PVR
Features
- Downloads TV and radio programmes from BBC iPlayer
- Allows multiple programmes to be downloaded using a single command
- Indexing of most available iPlayer catch-up programmes (not BBC Three, Red Button or iPlayer Exclusive)
- Caching of index with automatic updating
- Regex search on programme name
- Regex search on programme description and episode title
- Filter search results by channel
- Direct download via programme ID or URL
- PVR capability (may be used with cron or Task Scheduler)
- HTTP proxy support
- Perl 5.10.1+ required, plus LWP, LWPProtocolhttps, XMLSimple, XMLLibXML and Mojolicious modules
- Requires ffmpeg for conversion to MP4 and AtomicParsley for metadata tagging
- Runs on Linux/BSD (Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenBSD and others), macOS (10.10+), Windows (7/8/10 - XP/Vista not supported)
NOTE:
- get_iplayer can only search for programmes that were broadcast on BBC linear services within the previous 30 days, even if some are available for more than 30 days on the iPlayer site. Any programmes that are still available after 30 days must be located on the iPlayer site and downloaded directly via PID or URL.
- get_iplayer does not support downloading news/sport videos, other embedded media, archive sites, special collections, educational material, programme clips or any content other than whole episodes of programmes broadcast on BBC linear services within the previous 30 days, plus episodes of BBC Three programmes posted within the same period. It may be possible to download other content directly via PID or URL, but such use is not supported.
$ErrorActionPreference = 'Stop';
$packageName = 'getiplayer'
$softwareName = 'get_iplayer*'
$installerType = 'EXE'
$silentArgs = '/S /qn /norestart'
$validExitCodes = @(0, 3010, 1605, 1614, 1641)
if ($installerType -ne 'MSI') {
$silentArgs = '/S'
$validExitCodes = @(0)
}
$uninstalled = $false
[array]$key = Get-UninstallRegistryKey -SoftwareName $softwareName
if ($key.Count -eq 1) {
$key | % {
$file = "$($_.UninstallString)"
if ($installerType -eq 'MSI') {
$silentArgs = "$($_.PSChildName) $silentArgs"
$file = ''
}
Uninstall-ChocolateyPackage -PackageName $packageName `
-FileType $installerType `
-SilentArgs "$silentArgs" `
-ValidExitCodes $validExitCodes `
-File "$file"
}
} elseif ($key.Count -eq 0) {
Write-Warning "$packageName has already been uninstalled by other means."
} elseif ($key.Count -gt 1) {
Write-Warning "$key.Count matches found!"
Write-Warning "To prevent accidental data loss, no programs will be uninstalled."
Write-Warning "Please alert package maintainer the following keys were matched:"
$key | % {Write-Warning "- $_.DisplayName"}
}
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Add to Builder | Version | Downloads | Last Updated | Status |
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getiplayer (Install) 3.35.0 | 192 | Monday, January 15, 2024 | Approved | |
getiplayer (Install) 3.34.0 | 186 | Monday, November 6, 2023 | Approved | |
getiplayer (Install) 3.33.0 | 141 | Thursday, October 12, 2023 | Approved | |
getiplayer (Install) 3.32.0 | 24 | Thursday, October 12, 2023 | Approved | |
getiplayer (Install) 3.31 | 363 | Tuesday, January 24, 2023 | Approved | |
getiplayer (Install) 3.30 | 38 | Tuesday, January 24, 2023 | Approved | |
getiplayer (Install) 3.29 | 463 | Tuesday, February 8, 2022 | Approved | |
getiplayer (Install) 3.28 | 270 | Thursday, December 9, 2021 | Approved | |
getiplayer (Install) 3.27.1 | 456 | Tuesday, February 16, 2021 | Approved | |
getiplayer (Install) 3.27 | 127 | Monday, February 15, 2021 | Approved | |
getiplayer (Install) 3.26 | 443 | Tuesday, June 30, 2020 | Approved | |
getiplayer (Install) 3.25 | 499 | Monday, February 3, 2020 | Approved | |
getiplayer (Install) 3.24 | 234 | Friday, January 10, 2020 | Approved | |
getiplayer (Install) 3.23 | 262 | Wednesday, December 4, 2019 | Approved | |
getiplayer (Install) 3.22 | 399 | Tuesday, August 20, 2019 | Approved | |
getiplayer (Install) 3.21 | 327 | Monday, July 15, 2019 | Approved | |
getiplayer (Install) 3.20 | 402 | Tuesday, February 26, 2019 | Approved | |
getiplayer (Install) 3.18 | 331 | Thursday, January 3, 2019 | Approved | |
getiplayer (Install) 3.16 | 487 | Friday, July 6, 2018 | Approved | |
getiplayer (Install) 3.15 | 292 | Thursday, July 5, 2018 | Approved | |
getiplayer (Install) 3.14 | 391 | Wednesday, May 9, 2018 | Approved | |
getiplayer (Install) 3.13 | 485 | Tuesday, March 27, 2018 | Approved | |
getiplayer (Install) 3.12 | 472 | Monday, January 15, 2018 | Approved | |
getiplayer (Install) 3.10 | 394 | Friday, January 12, 2018 | Approved | |
getiplayer (Install) 3.09 | 493 | Tuesday, January 2, 2018 | Approved | |
getiplayer (Install) 3.07 | 440 | Wednesday, November 29, 2017 | Approved | |
getiplayer (Install) 3.06 | 430 | Wednesday, November 1, 2017 | Approved | |
getiplayer (Install) 3.05 | 427 | Friday, October 13, 2017 | Approved | |
getiplayer (Install) 3.04 | 371 | Friday, October 13, 2017 | Approved | |
getiplayer (Install) 3.03 | 431 | Monday, October 2, 2017 | Approved | |
getiplayer (Install) 3.02 | 452 | Monday, August 21, 2017 | Approved | |
getiplayer (Install) 3.01 | 495 | Monday, May 8, 2017 | Approved | |
getiplayer (Install) 3.00 | 400 | Tuesday, May 2, 2017 | Approved | |
getiplayer (Install) 2.99.20170410 | 430 | Monday, April 10, 2017 | Approved | |
getiplayer (Install) 2.99 | 487 | Wednesday, February 22, 2017 | Approved | |
getiplayer (Install) 2.97 | 407 | Monday, October 31, 2016 | Approved |
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get_iplayer 3.00 Release Notes
Read First
Deprecated features have been removed in this release. See the "Removed" section below. There are also new deprecations.
Packagers:
- get_iplayer no longer uses rtmpdump (or flvstreamer). You can remove those as dependencies for your package.
- get_iplayer 3.00 introduces a new dependency on the Mojolicious Perl module. It has been tested against the ancient Mojolicious 4.63 in Ubuntu 14.04, but a higher required version may be necessary in subsequent releases.
- get_iplayer 3.00 also introduces a dependency on the JSONPP Perl module. That is a core module in Perl 5.14+, and would normally be pulled in by Mojolicious if installing on 5.10.1 or 5.12. It is unlikely any of you are targeting Perl <5.14, but if you are, make sure that JSONPP is installed along with any packaged version of Mojolicious.
get_iplayer 3.00 dependencies are:
- External programs:
- atomicparsley
- ffmpeg
- Perl modules:
- JSON::PP
- LWP
- LWPProtocolhttps
- Mojolicious
- XML::LibXML
- XML::Simple
If you haven't read the release notes for get_iplayer 2.99, read them now.
If you haven't read the release notes for get_iplayer 2.98, read them now.
If you haven't read the release notes for get_iplayer 2.97, read them now.
If you haven't read the release notes for get_iplayer 2.96, read them now.
If you haven't read the release notes for get_iplayer 2.95, read them now.
New/Changed
1. Restored functionality broken by the BBC
The BBC removed all the XML-based data sources used by get_iplayer on 2017-04-26, breaking a lot of get_iplayer functionality. That functionality has been restored, but there are changes to be aware of - get_iplayer has not survived unscathed. Some of the changes are similar to those associated with the --ybbcy
option introduced in get_iplayer 2.95. However, the underlying implementation has changed and that option can no longer be specified by users.
Do this first
Immediately after installing get_iplayer 3.00, run:
get_iplayer --cache-init --type="tv,radio"
Exclude the --type
option if you only want TV programmes. The --cache-init
option will update your cache with programmes from both the previous and current calendar weeks. It is a temporary means to avoid any holes in your cache when updating from 2.99. This initial update will take a a little while (2-5 minutes), but you only have to do it once. If you're using Perl <5.10.1 or didn't install Mojolicious, it may take 5-10 minutes because you won't be able to take advantage of concurrent indexing (see "Programme indexing" below). The time it takes on your system may vary quite a bit from this estimate. Note that you cannot do this cache initialisation from the web pvr. It must run from the command line.
EDIT: Along with some other site changes, it appears that the BBC has improved the performance of their schedule pages. The estimates of cache refresh time in the original version of this document have been reduced.
Cache updates
- Cache updates are now a bit slower. See "Programme indexing" below.
- The slower updates are compensated for by the fact that the cache is now updated only once per calendar week (Mon-Sun). The cache will be updated the first time get_iplayer runs during the week.
- There is virtually no reason you should need to force a cache update once it has been updated during the current calendar week. Rare last-minute additions to the BBC schedule would not be indexed, but you can always download such programmes directly via PID or URL.
- If you run PVR searches via cron, Task Scheduler or similar, you may wish to schedule a weekly cache update before your first PVR run of each week. Just run
get_iplayer --refresh --type="tv,radio"
(omit--type
for TV only) to update the cache from the current week's programme schedule. - All programmes will be retained in the cache for 30 days even if they should expire sooner (expiry information is not available from schedule pages). This means that unavailable programmes will appear in search results. Many of these are ephemeral programmes such as newscasts and weather forecasts, but some unavailable entertainment programmes and films will also be returned in search results.
- Thumbnail image URLs are no longer generated in the cache. You will only notice this if you use the Web PVR, where thumbnails are no longer displayed. Thumbnails used for metadata tagging are still available.
EDIT: A bug has been reported that leads to search and download failures for programmes with repeats scheduled later in the current calendar week. See: Known Issues
Programme indexing
Programme indexing for cache updates is now a bit slower. It may take 2-5 mins (with concurrent indexing - see below) for a weekly update with all tv and radio channels, but the indexing time on your system can vary quite a bit from that estimate.
The slower indexing derives from that fact that get_iplayer now depends on BBC schedule pages for programme information. A high-speed connection won't help a lot because most of any delay lies in page rendering at the BBC end.
Reliance on web scraping makes programme indexing much more fragile than in previous releases. Expect it to break more often, which will require new releases to fix.
get_iplayer now uses concurrent indexing (implemented with Mojolicious) to speed up cache updates. If Mojolicious isn't installed, you will fall back to sequential indexing. If you encounter problems with concurrent indexing, you can temporarily revert to sequential indexing by using
--no-index-concurrent
. Sequential indexing will take at least twice as long, or even longer. Also, sequential indexing is deprecated and will disappear in a future release.The most effective way to reduce indexing time is to eliminate channels you don't need from your cache updates. For example: Except for short-lived local news bulletins, there are very few unique programmes on local BBC One variants. Exclude them with:
get_iplayer --prefs-add --refresh-exclude-groups-tv="local"
Excluding unwanted channels will make a noticeable difference to indexing time. See the relevant documentation for other examples.
If you have sufficient resources, you may be able to reduce indexing time a bit by using a few more concurrent connections. Use the
--index-maxconn
option for this.Users of Perl <5.10.1 will not have access to concurrent indexing because it depends on Mojolicious, which requires Perl 5.10.1+. Without Mojolicious, get_iplayer will will temporarily fall back to sequential indexing. Note that support for Perl <5.10.1 is now deprecated.
The option for Linux/BSD/macOS users to employ the Parallel::ForkManager Perl module for concurrent indexing, introduced in get_iplayer 2.95 with
--ybbcy
, has been removed.
Programme metadata
Programme metadata (used for tagging) has been restored nearly to its former state. The only difference is that the <lastbcast>
, <lastbcastdate>
, and <lastbcastrel>
substitution parameters are no longer available. This is only a temporary reprieve since metadata retrieval will need to adopt web scraping at some point within the next year because the BBC will be removing the last sources of structured programme data.
Recursive downloads
The recursive download functionality (via --pid-recursive
) has been re-implemented. It also now relies on web scraping, so it should be considered fragile and subject to breakage at any time.
2. Subtitles now in colour
The SRT subtitles produced by get_iplayer now include <font>
tags to preserve the colour information from the TTML originals. Subtitles from get_iplayer should now appear as a reasonable approximation of the subtitles on the iPlayer site. If your media player is unable to cope with <font>
tags in SRT subtitles, or you don't like colour subtitles, you can revert back to the old monochrome format with --subs-mono
.
The subtitles conversion in get_iplayer has been re-implemented using XML::LibXML. If you encounter problems with the new implementation, you can configure get_iplayer revert back to the old conversion code with:
get_iplayer --prefs-add --subsfmt=default
However, that option is deprecated and will be removed in a future release, so if you find programmes whose subtitles can't be processed with the new implementation, report them in the forums.
EDIT: A bug has been reported in the new subtitles implementation. See: Known Issues.
3. Other changes
- get_iplayer now supports the BBC "bidi" CDN, so additional streams are available for TV programmes.
- Additional subtitle streams are now picked up from the BBC stream data, so you will see more "subtitle" modes for TV programmes. The subtitle streams for a programme all provide the same subtitles, but there is now some backup if the initial subtitles stream fails to download.
- Series thumbnails are now preferred to brand thumbnails where possible. This should provide more appropriate thumbnails for strands within radio anthology series.
- hvf modes for TV programmes will now produce files with 320k audio, if available. 320k audio is not available for hls or dvf modes.
- When
--no-tag
is used, get_iplayer now adds-movflags faststart
to the ffmpeg command it uses to remux files to MP4. This optimises files for streaming by placing the "moov" atom before the media data in the file. This optimisation is normally performed by AtomicParsley when files are tagged. If your version of ffmpeg is too ancient to understand-movflags faststart
, suppress this behaviour with--ffmpeg-obsolete
.
Removed
The features below were deprecated in get_iplayer 2.95 and have now been removed.
- Support for RTMP (Flash) media streams. Any flash recording modes specified in your preferences will automatically be converted to equivalent daf or hls modes and a warning emitted. You should remove any flash modes in your preferences.
Options removed
With the removal of deprecated features, the following options have been removed. An error will be generated if you attempt to use these on the command line. A warning will be printed if any of these are found in saved preferences.
--check-duration
--flvstreamer
--rtmp-radio-opts
--rtmp-tv-opts
--rtmpdump
--rtmpport
--swfurl
Fixed
- Fixed a bug where
<dir>
would break custom commands if output directory was a UNC path. - Restored hls modes for local news bulletins that were lost due to BBC changes.
Support Notes
Bandwidth throttling(?) by CDNs
You may have noticed substantial differences in download speed between the iPlayer CDNs. This differential can vary with time of day. It is only speculation, but one or more CDNs may be throttling connection bandwidth at times, which would be no surprise given that the iPlayer media delivery infrastructure is geared towards streaming. This is just a reminder that you can use --exclude-supplier
to temporarily exclude a slow CDN.
Things can only get worse
For whatever life it has left, get_iplayer will rely more heavily on web scraping. This is fragile and easily broken by BBC changes. This is just a warning that it may be necessary to make smaller, more frequent releases of get_iplayer for a while. Hopefully, downloading of individual episodes via PID or URL will still work in some fashion during those outages, but there is no way to know.
EDIT: get_iplayer now requires macOS 10.10 Yosemite or higher
If you are one of the hardy few who install get_iplayer via Homebrew, be aware that macOS 10.10 (Yosemite) is now required to install or upgrade to v3.00.0. Also, only macOS 10.10 or higher is supported for manual installation. Users of earlier releases can attempt to perform a manual installation, but it is unsupported and get_iplayer may fail. If you are upgrading on macOS, be sure to read Upgrading before proceeding.
EDIT: Reminder: Windows XP/Vista not supported
Support for XP/Vista was dropped nearly a year ago. The version of ffmpeg supplied with the get_installer is not compatible with XP (Vista status unknown), and there may be other problems. You will have to find a compatible version of ffmpeg if you want to keep using XP/Vista.
Deprecations
The features below have been deprecated and will be removed in a future release of get_iplayer.
Sequential programme indexing
The sequential programme indexing code introduced with the --ybbcy
option in get_iplayer 2.95 is still available in get_iplayer 3.00 as a backup method should any problems arise in the Mojolicious-based concurrent indexing. Once the shakedown phase for concurrent indexing is done, sequential programme indexing will be removed.
Support for Perl <5.10.1
The Perl version required for get_iplayer is now listed as 5.10.1, though you can still use 5.8.8-5.10.0 subject to the limitation that only sequential programme indexing is available. When sequential programme indexing is eventually removed and other functionality re-implemented with Mojolicious, Perl 5.10.1 will become a hard requirement.
Obsolete options
Some options are, or soon will be, obsolete due to changes in get_iplayer 3.00+.
--cache-init
--no-index-concurrent
--no-scrape-versions
--subsfmt
--thumbsizecache
Install/Upgrade
Installation information can be found here:
[https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/installation]
More Information
See: get_iplayer wiki
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