Get IPLAYER - problems

[newtusmaximus]

GET_IPLAYER The problem seems to have returned?  Anyone else having problems?
Using giPlayer GUI

PID Error

"The PID or URL you have entered in incorrect.
This is either because you have typed or pasted an incorrect PID or URL
or the BBC Programme ID is not a BBC iPlayer video or audo.
ie. You may have selected a Programme ID of a series,
rather than of a particular episode.
Check that you can play the video or audio on the website"

[m654321]

GET_IPLAYER The problem seems to have returned?  Anyone else having problems?
Using giPlayer GUI

PID Error

"The PID or URL you have entered in incorrect.
This is either because you have typed or pasted an incorrect PID or URL
or the BBC Programme ID is not a BBC iPlayer video or audo.
ie. You may have selected a Programme ID of a series,
rather than of a particular episode.
Check that you can play the video or audio on the website"

Yes, get_iplayer has been down continuously here in the U.K. for around a week so far - very frustrating!
I know there is more than one method to download BBC TV programmes, but the two-step method I use below is the only one I know which gives the current listing of BBC TV programmes available to download that you can browse in the terminal and select from:

1. Get list of programmes available for download (each programme is shown with a number that identifies it)

Code:

get_iplayer

2. Select & download programme(s)

Code:

get_iplayer -g [programme number]

or, if your PC tells you you've already downloaded it previously you can override this using '--force'

Code:

get_iplayer -g --force [programme number]

Normally, the BBC TV programme listings appear to be refreshed on a daily basis at midday and midnight .

I do hope that get_iplayer returns ...

Mike

[m654321]

Get_iplayer (version 2.94-1) in the Ubuntu repository doesn't work anymore - it is obsolete.

To rectify this you need to install get_iplayer version 3.01 (latest version) from github.
I discovered this last night when running get_iplayer in Manjaro17, which worked as normal, but has version 3.0 installed.

Cheers
Mike

[Valtam]

We don't package iplayer, it comes from Ubuntu.

[m654321]

We don't package iplayer, it comes from Ubuntu.

Thanks Jerry - I have corrected reply #2 accordingly.

[newtusmaximus]

Thanks m654321.
https://launchpad.net/~jon-hedgerows/+ar...et-iplayer.  gives details of product development for future reference.

[m654321]

[member=149]newtusmaximus[/member] - could you now mark this thread as solved, since ...

... the up-to-date version of get-iplayer (3.01-ppa30a~xenial) is now available from the Ubuntu repository.

    Just go to  Menu Install Updates Search (type get-iplayer in the Search box).

[m654321]

[member=149]newtusmaximus[/member] - could you now mark this thread as solved, since ...

... the up-to-date version of get-iplayer (3.01-ppa30a~xenial) is now available from the Ubuntu repository.
Just go to  Menu Install Updates Search (type get-iplayer in the Search box).

I just went to the "Install Updates" repository to install get_iplayer v. 3.01 (mentioned in the above quote) but it is not showing, only the 2.94-1 version ...  I don't understand why v3.01 was there in May, but not in September.

[m654321]

It appears that support for the 3.01 version of get_iplayer stopped on the 18th August 2017. This may explain why the 3.01 package mysteriously disappeared from the Ubuntu repository, sometime between May and August. The latest 3.02 version was published on the 22nd August.

If you want to install the 3.02 version, you will need to first delete any previous version of both get-iplayer and its dependency, atomic parsley.  The default version of atomicparsley (in the Ubuntu repository) is 0.9.2, but you will need a later version for 3.02 to work. You can delete these packages using Synaptic Package Manager (Menu System Install/Remove Software).

Then, follow these two steps to install and run get_iplayer 3.02.

First step
Download the atomicparsley 0.9.6 dependency from ...
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p...8&t=250289

If you are using the LL3 series, you will need the xenial version of atomicparsley - the link is shown under the paragraph beginning with "Linux Mint 18.x wrote..."  Click on the link. The package to download will then appear on your desktop; right click on it, then click "Open with GDebi Package Installer", to install the package.

Second step
Download get_iplayer_3.02 from ...
https://launchpad.net/~jon-hedgerows/+ar.../+packages

Scroll down past "changelog", until you come to "Package files"
Click on get-iplayer_3.02-1-ge2c5943-ppa30c~xenial_all.deb

The package to download will then appear on your desktop; as above use GDebi to install it.

When done, you're now ready to go. Just open the terminal and type get_iplayer after the prompt, to get the BBC TV listings.  To download one or more TV programmes, type get_iplayer -g [programme number].  If you have more than one TV programme to download, leave one character space between each number in the list (don't use commas).

I hope this fix for get_iplayer works for you (as it did me). Ongoing issues with get_iplayer can be frustrating, but it seems there is usually a way around them - at least so far so good - thanks to some clever folk leaving their solutions to Linux issues on the web ...

Mike

[newtusmaximus]

Hi,  Thanks for your message

V2.94 in Synaptic I can't get to work.  So fully uninstalled - including dependencies etc. Then visited https://launchpad.net/~jon-hedgerows/+ar...et-iplayer to try and get 3.02
This pointed me to GITHUB but could not get it to download.  Me??.
So, although not LL policy – understood valid reasons, added ppa  via command line
Then added GUI Giplayer -v0.52

RESULT – Search  TV  box and download works
BUT using PID  box at top and download throws up error PID not recognised.

The latter used to work flawlessly and allowed for download of programs older than 1 week.

Will now try and get older programs using the command line PID command.
“get-iplayer --pid=xxxxxxxx”

That seems to work.

UPDATE:- 
The GiPlayer PID download option worked ! when i tried very early in the morning/ Very Late at night.  No PID error.  So it is possible that this needs to be used when BBC iPlayer server is not very busy.

Also the command line route for getting PID  of older programs still listed on iPlayer seems to give  File sizes are approx 2x as large as they would have been via Search TV.  The  route taken appears to be to record the program as opposed to downloading a pre-prepared mp4  ??