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.
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.
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/
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
welldone
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