2014-10-30, 22:47
I knew this day was going to come - and I guess we are lucky it came later rather than sooner. I will follow the progress of the API, but it doesn't look like it will be of much help to us currently. A shame as others have said that they closed off the feeds before the developer API was ready for public consumption.
It might be possible to rework the player to scrape data from the website, but it is not something I have time to look into.
I started maintaining the iplayer plugin over 4 years ago - around the time they added additional security to the streams. I enjoyed getting it up and running again, and I hope it has been a useful plugin for people - 167 pages on this thread suggests it has been - or that it is full of bugs! ;-)
I would like to thank to everyone who has provided bug reports, feedback and fixes. Maybe one day I will have time to look into making a new plugin for iplayer, but for now I'm going to have to say thanks and goodbye. Cheers.
Of course if someone has a magical patchset to make it all work again, please do submit it
It might be possible to rework the player to scrape data from the website, but it is not something I have time to look into.
I started maintaining the iplayer plugin over 4 years ago - around the time they added additional security to the streams. I enjoyed getting it up and running again, and I hope it has been a useful plugin for people - 167 pages on this thread suggests it has been - or that it is full of bugs! ;-)
I would like to thank to everyone who has provided bug reports, feedback and fixes. Maybe one day I will have time to look into making a new plugin for iplayer, but for now I'm going to have to say thanks and goodbye. Cheers.
Of course if someone has a magical patchset to make it all work again, please do submit it