BBC iPlayer Downloader for Apple Mac, Linux, Windows, iPhone
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Whilst the BBC are still dragging their feet with providing Windows only versions of their iPlayer software for downloading programmes, I've been using an alternative solution.
Paul Battley has found a solution using Ruby script run as a command line application. This is a cross platform tool that will work on Mac OS X, Windows and Linux. There is a GUI interface as well, though the author recommends using the command line which works perfectly well within a Terminal window.
./iplayer-dl --pid-list=download.txt
The downloader is able to handle bulk downloads through creating a list of programmes using the PID identifier in a text file.
Download the latest iPlayer Downloader software. On a Mac you'll need to have installed Apple's Xcode development environment.
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visitor
13 September 2008 - 6:13am
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anonymous
Ok, this helps us mac users slightly. Why can't someone come up with a standalone app which does this with a GUI? - I know there are some already, but as of 13th September 2008, these don't work.
visitor
14 September 2008 - 12:11pm
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iPlayer Downloader 2.0
It's been difficult because the BBC keep changing the goalposts.
But as it happens, there is one, and I helped write it.
iPlayer Downloader 2.0 downloads fine. Newer version will have multiple downloads, integrated WebViews and maybe even proxy support.
http://www.lawrencedudley.co.uk/iplayer/
visitor
18 September 2008 - 7:31am
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NM
Which if fine if you're one of the 20% of users on 10.5
But it, or the older version 1.1, don't work for 10.4!
Very disappointing that the software doesn't even go back a single 0.1 version of the OS
visitor
9 November 2008 - 6:01pm
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welldone
welldone
visitor
6 December 2008 - 2:17am
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brool
Thank you, thank you, thank you, for a sweet little app! Very easy to set up and use and works great! (Version 2.3, running on iMac with 10.5.5)
visitor
19 December 2008 - 10:55am
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Lawrence Dudley
NM - we wrote this app primarily for ourselves; it's free, we like it. If you don't want to upgrade then don't, it's not our problem.
visitor
12 April 2010 - 10:24pm
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jess
is it really that gd because you make it sound great and then i went out and brought one and i didnt like it and i am a computer geek ???????
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