Comments on: Hulu TV and Film Download Support in get_iplayer

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 12:48:30 +0000

Hulu is not supported by get_iplayer. It was tried for a short while along with support for channel 4’s new catchup service but support was dropped due to problems.

By: Jake

Jake — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 03:17:02 +0000

I’m getting the exact same error as Angelo. Anyone help?

By: Angelo

Angelo — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 03:13:02 +0000

$ get_iplayer.pl –type=hulu
get_iplayer v2.20, Copyright (C) 2009 Phil Lewis
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details use –warranty.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain
conditions; use –conditions for details.

ERROR: Invalid type ‘hulu’ specified. Valid types are: livetv,itv,tv,liveradio,podcast,radio

By: georges

georges — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 09:22:23 +0000

plz

By: hulugeek

hulugeek — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 07:57:49 +0000

instead of wireshare you can use tamper data addon in firefox… much much better and you can also tamper the outgoing http data aswell.

By: linuxcentre

linuxcentre — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 01:24:51 +0000

It’s all in the flash. I think we’ll have it working soon!

By: Howard Chu

Howard Chu — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 01:17:34 +0000

If you’re familiar with tcpdump / wireshark you can sniff the traffic from a regular Hulu session and try to work it out. I’ve got one trace on my system that I’m playing with at the moment. Hulu is unwatchable in my web browser because the Flash plugin is such a pig. The videos only playback smoothly if I download them and use a regular movie player…

By: Aaron

Aaron — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:47:59 +0000

Well that’s a shame–it breaks on the first day I try it! Is there a way to collect examples of valid contentid and PID pairs in order to attempt reverse engineering?

By: linuxcentre

linuxcentre — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:16:43 +0000

Yes, Hulu isn’t supported until the new Hulu contentid->PID algorithm is reverse engineered. Hulu kicked off Boxee today and none of our scripts now work! Oh well – guess you’ll have to use other methods to get your US TV fix…

By: Aaron

Aaron — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 02:18:03 +0000

I’m having trouble getting get_iplayer to work with Hulu. It builds the index and can search shows, but the actual downloading fails. I’m within the US, so there are no proxy issues. I also tried with –vmode=flashhigh and –vmode=flashlow to no avail. There is a tilda in the retrieved HPID–is that normal? Am I doing something wrong?

./get_iplayer –type=hulu –vmode=flashnormal –rtmpdump=./rtmpdump -g 201008 -v

get_iplayer v1.39, Copyright (C) 2009 Phil Lewis
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details use –warranty.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain
conditions; use –conditions for details.

Current options:
rtmpdump = ./rtmpdump
type = hulu
verbose = 1
vmode = flashnormal

INFO: Search args: ‘201008’
INFO: Additionally getting cached programme data for hulu
INFO: got 2352 cache entries for hulu
Matches:
201008: House – Painless, Drama

INFO: 1 Matching Programmes
WARNING: Cannot read ~/.get_iplayer/download_history

INFO: flashnormal modes will be tried
INFO: Trying flashnormal mode to download hulu: House – Painless
INFO: Getting page http://www.hulu.com/watch/54717
.INFO: CID=13740183
INFO: Getting page http://r.hulu.com/videos?content_id=13740183
.INFO: HPID=98fcd87749f12ed01bbbded49cac597bff8a9d33489067f928c91f43990d6a
21~998dddcb22e2f436f6ef02c0436d14079d37fb3bcef51f96ce1d6202e10cb996
INFO: Getting page http://releasegeo.hulu.com/content.select?pid=98
fcd87749f12ed01bbbded49cac597bff8a9d33489067f928c91f43990d6a21~998d
ddcb22e2f436f6ef02c0436d14079d37fb3bcef51f96ce1d6202e10cb996&mbr=tr
ue&format=smil
WARNING: Failed to get programme stream data for House from site
WARNING: Failed to get programme stream data for House from site
WARNING: Failed to get programme stream data for House from site
WARNING: No programme stream URLs were found for flashnormal, skipping
DEBUG: Download using flashnormal mode return code: ‘next’
INFO: skipping flashnormal mode
ERROR: Failed to download ‘House – Painless (hulu-54717)’