On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 2:58 AM, Twirlip2 <ahr...@googlemail.com> wrote: > It just pulls a lot of HTML and XML from the website, and extracts the > addresses of various other pages, and eventually *.WMA streams, and > hands the stream URLs over to XMPlay <http://www.un4seen.com/>. > > It 'knows' what pages to visit, because I have manually built up a plain > text file containing a list of (at the moment) 274 BBC radio programmes, > represented by 579 different mnemonic key strings - of which the user > only needs to type in a sufficiently long initial segment to disambiguate. > > Anyone else could use the same list, or build up their own, or use mine as > a basis for their own. (I just maintain it using a text editor. I haven't > [yet] attempted to do any database programming.) > > I have plenty of ideas for improving the program, but first I have to > re-organise the present spaghetti code in a more logical fashion.
I have a better idea: use an existing solution. get_iplayer, to be precise. See here: http://www.infradead.org/get_iplayer/html/get_iplayer.html It’s written in Perl. They claim to have a Windows installer. I have not tested the Windows thing, but it worked fine when I set it up on Linux, and managed to download a radio programme on August 12th. Sample usage (on Linux, you might need to adjust for no grep) $ get_iplayer --type=radio --refresh | grep 'Chris Evans' 12876: The Chris Evans Breakfast Show - Borrowing Boyfriends, BBC Radio 2, Discussion & Talk Shows,Entertainment,Music,Radio 12877: The Chris Evans Breakfast Show - 21/08/2014, BBC Radio 2, Discussion & Talk Shows,Entertainment,Music,Radio 12878: The Chris Evans Breakfast Show - Peter Capaldi, Daniel Radcliffe, Jon Hamm and Ruby Turner, BBC Radio 2, Discussion & Talk Shows,Entertainment,Music,Radio 12879: The Chris Evans Breakfast Show - John Bishop sits in, BBC Radio 2, Discussion & Talk Shows,Entertainment,Music,Radio 12880: The Chris Evans Breakfast Show - Babooshka!, BBC Radio 2, Discussion & Talk Shows,Entertainment,Music,Radio $ get_iplayer --type=radio 12878 --get And kaboom, #12878, "Peter Capaldi, Daniel Radcliffe, Jon Hamm and Ruby Turner", is downloaded and stored on your hard drive. -- Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick <http://chriswarrick.com/> PGP: 5EAAEA16 stop html mail | always bottom-post | only UTF-8 makes sense -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
