[OT] Fetching BBC Radio Programs with get-iplayer?

Dave, it's the 'app' iPlayer interface get_iplayer uses not the web one. So Radio 4 stuff seems to appear sometime after last live repeat. If you want it before then use the iPlayer web URL for the episode with youtube-dl. You'll need to recode with avconv out of libav-tools for many a audio player though.

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Equally old stuff which is on the web disappears from the app version early.

The command you need for Ep #1 is
youtube-dl http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04knthd

Good job done by leny2010. I also want to learn this by searching on google. I have already tried to do this but fail. May be i am doing something wrong. I like a program of Radio and commonly i used BBC News Online (http://bbcnewsplanet.com/) to listen the radio program. Thanks for sharing the nice information with us.

I found the schedule for the radio program of interest and downloaded the episodes with youtube-dl instead of get-iplayer. Why do they use flash video for files containing only audio? I tried converting one to ogg with oggconvert; the result sounded horrible; I'll just keep the flv's for now.

The BBC has changed the way it works and so get_iplayer no longer works as it used to. (The BBC - making stuff with public money and then making it hard to get).
The only method that now works (as far as I know) is to get the program to load in the browser and then copy the program ID from the address bar.

Example command: get_iplayer --pid=b04wzt43 --type=radio

This will pull down the program with the PID b04wzt43.

Point being that get_iplayer cannot get a list of stuff that's available anymore. This was true when I last used get_iplayer which was sometime in November/October last year.

Hope that helps.