Although get_iplayer was dropped by its author around 3 months ago, until recently it had continued to work. But a change on iPlayer a couple of weeks stopped it working. Luckily, several people have taken it upon themselves to continue to maintain the code. One of these seems to have turned into a project to entirely rewrite it (which seems rather unnecessary), but another has successfully fixed the problems caused by the recent changes.
So get_iplayer v2.78 is now available, which is fantastic news. There is also a Windows installer which gets all the necessary supporting applications, although I’ve never tried this (don’t have any Windows machines any more).
I’ve also noticed that the iPlayer Downloader app Christine Caulfield built on top of get_iplayer has also been removed. This is a shame, because it’s very much my favourite way of using get_iplayer. But the good news is that if you substitute the latest version of get_iplayer into the package, it still works.
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