Any advice on downloading radio from Iplayer?

[magval]

I see it mentioned on here sometimes that people've ripped stuff from iPlayer. Is it easy? I'd like to get some audio stuff before it goes forever?

[Sebastian Cobb]

Quick and easy way, paste the link into offliberty.com and download it.

Long, but probably better quality way, use get_iplayer
I assume you're on windows:
https://www.squarepenguin.co.uk/downloads/windows/

It's a command-line app, the command to get stuff will be

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get_iplayer --modes=best --url=<the url of the show you want>


if you want to get a series of shows then go to the shows landing page and do this

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get_iplayer --modes=best --pid-recursive --url=<url>


[magval]

No, I'm on Mac actually. Any alternative?

[NoSleep]

No, I'm on Mac actually. Any alternative?

This...

Quick and easy way, paste the link into offliberty.com and download it.

[magval]

Nah, that's shite and doesn't work.

It OK though, Seb's link had a Mac version anyway. Downloaded a half hour comedy in less than two minutes. Lethal altogether!

Thanks folks!

[Sebastian Cobb]

Ahh it's even easier if you're on a mac, you can install it with brew.

It's a unix application anyway, the windows installation comes with heaps of libraries that are native to osx/linux

[magval]

I don't even understand any of that, and I've found the setup and getting downloads going extremely easy. It's ace. Testing it out on a video now.

[Malcy]

I found get iPlayer baffling for years and used to request on here and elsewhere for people to do it for me.

About a year ago I decided to give it another try. I copy the web address and type get_iplayer "url" then enter and within 10 seconds it's downloaded at top quality.

Have about 30GB or radio stuff sitting waiting to be listened to.

[magval]

Does it work for other streaming sites? I imagine not, but I'd also imagine they use similar hosting technology, right?

[Malcy]

Does it work for other streaming sites? I imagine not, but I'd also imagine they use similar hosting technology, right?

Only iPlayer. There are loads of sites/programs that rip from streaming sites though so the technology is there.

[olliebean]

youtube-dl is probably the best general-purpose stream ripper; it won't do Channel 4 (I've yet to find anything that will), but it'll do ITV and Dave and a lot of non-UK sites (full list of supported sites here: https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/supportedsites.html).

[studpuppet]

No, I'm on Mac actually. Any alternative?

get_iplayer works on a Mac, via Terminal. Sounds really hard but it's a doddle. Do the installation, open Terminal and type "get_iplayer --pid=xxxxxx"

where "xxxxxx" is the programme ID of the programme you want to download. So this episode of Nairn Across Britain:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p01rn270/nairn-across-britain-1-from-london-to-lancashire

the PID is p01rn270

You can do loads of other things - set it to download series etc. but I just use the bog standard functionality.

https://www.squarepenguin.co.uk/downloads/mac-os-x/