Ever wanted to automatically download your favourite BBC iPlayer programmes and podcasts? Well now get_iplayer v0.84 can act as a quite sophisticated PVR.
It allows you to download any number of iPlayer / podcast programmes using any combination of search terms that you would normally run on the get_iplayer command line. This includes searching by channel, category, version(i.e. Signed or Default), date added, programme name, episode name, description etc.
The PVR searches are saved in ~/.get_iplayer/pvr/
the Windows scheduler).
Examples of usage are as follow:
Add a new PVR search (using any usual search options):
To automatically download all BBC One comedy programmes:
get_iplayer --pvr-add=bbc1_comedy_tv_progs --category=comedy --type=tv --channel=’BBC One’
or, to automatically download the ‘Click’ TV programme:
get_iplayer --pvr-add=click --type=tv ^click$
or, to download all of Chris Moyles podcasts:
get_iplayer --pvr-add=moyles_podcasts --type=podcast moyles
List the PVR searches already added:
get_iplayer --pvr-list
Remove a PVR search:
get_iplayer --pvr-del=bbc1_comedy_tv_progs
Run the PVR (this really should be added to your scheduler such as cron):
get_iplayer --pvr
See the Readme file for more information on usage.
Sweet! Got to try this.
On Windows, the Task manager will only run a program, and I couldn’t get it to run get_iplayer with the “--pvr” needed to run the pvr script. Instead I had to put a batch script in c:\windows\system32 and I called it “iplayerpvr.bat” and then in that batch script put “get_Iplayer --pvr”
Then add the path to the batch script to the scheduled task in windows.
Alex.