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get_iPlayer

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get_iplayer is a command line utility for downloading TV and radio from BBC iPlayer .

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  • Free • Open Source

Country of Origin

  • GB flagUnited Kingdom

Platforms

  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Linux
  • Perl
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  • olpc
  • opensuse
  • centos
  • strawberry-perl
  • archlinux
  • fedora
  • windows-xp
  • windows-vista
  • ubuntu
  • cygwin
  • nslu2
  • debian
  • rhel

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  • Developed by

    GB flagget-iplayer

  • Licensing

    Open Source (GPL-3.0) and Free product.

  • Written in

  • Alternatives

    2 alternatives listed

  • Supported Languages

    • English

GitHub repository

  •  2,324 Stars
  •  230 Forks
  •  0 Open Issues
  •   Updated May 4, 2025 
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get_iPlayer was added to AlternativeTo by 10twerran on Sep 22, 2016 and this page was last updated May 1, 2017.

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What is get_iPlayer?

get_iplayer is a command line utility for downloading TV and radio from BBC iPlayer icon BBC iPlayer .

Features

Downloads TV and radio programmes from BBC iPlayer Allows multiple programmes to be downloaded using a single command Indexing of most available iPlayer catch-up programmes (not iPlayer Exclusive, Red Button or BBC Three) Caching of index (default 4h) Regex search on programme name Regex search on programme description and episode title Filter search results by channel PVR capability (may be used with cron or Task Scheduler) HTTP proxy support Perl 5.8.8+ required, plus LWP, XML::Simple and XML::LibXML modules Runs on Linux/Unix (Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenBSD and others), OS X, Windows (7/8/10 supported, known to run on XP/Vista)

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