Monday, 20 June 2011

Saving from BBC News pages using get-iplayer

Someone asked me if I could save a copy of a video clip from the BBC. I said 'sure, as long as it's on iplayer I can just use get-iplayer'.

Unfortunately the clip was embedded in a news page and not on iPlayer, so after a little fruitless messing about I assumed it couldn't be grabbed - wrong!

It turns out that:

sudo get-iplayer --url fullurlofpagewhichcontainstheclip

...saves the clip locally, no sweat

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