Serviio

iPlayer plugin (requires Serviio 1.6.1 and newer)

This is a plugin that enables to watch iPlayer content using the following URL structures:

Categories


Groups / collections


Episodes (id comes from the programme URL)



Added 22/9/2011
Updated for 0.6.1 5/1/2012
Updated 14/12/2012 (thanks to pineson)
Updated 9/6/2013
Updated 30/3/2016
Updated 29/06/2016

Updated the plugin

Thank you this plugin - it works great for the episodes that I want but I am struggling to get the categories function to work.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/categories ... highlights
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/categories ... highlights

Have the BBC moved things around and broken things?

I have looked at the Groovy code and can trace that there is a function to handle categories but I cannot get the logging to work to diagnose any further.

This is likely to be a novice problem. Can anyone help me with this?

Episodes work fine, cant get categories to work.

Agreed. Same as my problem.

What URL are you using for categories?

See my post above

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/categories ... highlights

Doesn't retrieve anything for me

Try this URL (instead of the grid, it's the a-z link on top right)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/categories ... ?sort=atoz

Excellent! That fixed that example.

But the one that I was really trying to access was

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/categories ... ?sort=atoz

And that must be different in some way as I get nothing.

I finally worked out how to look at the logging and realised that an exception was being raised when converting the release date. The BBC were being a little lazy in just putting in '1958' instead of '14 Feb 1958' and this was breaking the SimpleDateFormat parsing.

def releasedMatcher = li =~ '(?ms)<span class="release">.*?First shown:\\s*(.*?)\\n.*?</span>'
if(releasedMatcher) {
String releaseDateString = releasedMatcher[0][1]
releaseDate = new SimpleDateFormat('dd MMM yyyy').parse(releaseDateString)
}

I bodged in a fixed date and this solved the problem (except of course they all now show the same date). I'll let the author fix this more elegantly.

def releasedMatcher = li =~ '(?ms)<span class="release">.*?First shown:\\s*(.*?)\\n.*?</span>'
if(releasedMatcher) {
String releaseDateString = releasedMatcher[0][1]
releaseDateString = '1 Jan 1958'
releaseDate = new SimpleDateFormat('dd MMM yyyy').parse(releaseDateString)
}

Finally, the adoption of all?sort=atoz introduced a fault on the pagination mechanism. I had to add the third line here to suppress an '&amp;' in the URL.

pageBaseUrl = lastPageMatcher[0][1]
totalPages = lastPageMatcher[0][2].toInteger()
pageBaseUrl = pageBaseUrl.replace('amp;','')

I've fixed the first bit, cannot reproduce the error with pagination - works for me. Updated the plugin in the top post.

Thank you. I have confirmed that date is fixed. You might like to consider modifying other parts of the code where the same date parsing is done.

Try http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/categories ... ?sort=atoz

And observe the first page collecting alphabetically (approximately A-G) and then collecting the first page again rather than page 2.

Enhancing the logging to log("Loading page " +'http://www.bbc.co.uk' + pageBaseUrl + page)
shows the incorrect URL being used.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/categories ... amp;page=2
when it should be
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/categories ... toz&page=2

I suspect that you somehow aren't using the sort=atoz parameter to force the screen to a simple list.

Thanks, updated

Fixed! Thank you.

Hi, As I am now unable to get BBC Iplayer on my Sony Bravia TV (KDL-40EX703), I am trying Serviio ( Prov1.7) to provide access but I am encountering a few problems and I therefore need some help. I have followed the instructions in your posts thank you very much (downloaded the .groovy files, Inserted the URLs as written as a web resource) but:
1. The Episodes elements (including trying the Eastenders Example as written) does not show any episodes. My TV shows the online Display Name in the 'Online' folder but when I select that folder I get ' There are no items to display'
2. The Categories elaments work to a degree but I only get the the first page of files (as shown on the PC iplayer page) displayed on my TV. I have been using the '/all?sort=atoz' parameter at the end of the url but I do not have any item on the screen to select further pages

PS why can I not paste URLs in to the Serviio Console librarys?

Anyone give me a bit of help, I am almost there but not quite with this my first use of a plugin.
I have put the plugin in the plugins folder, then in the consul I have gone to the library then online sources. From there I have said
web resource, and videos,
and in source URL

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/categories ... highlights
under presentation for video I have for online display category.

When I go to serviio under video I have an online section, but when I chose it there is no content there.
I am sure I am not quite understanding the process correctly, can some one spot my errors ?

Many thanks.

I have done a few changes but still no joy,

I changed the type to live stream and used the URL below


http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/categories ... ?sort=atoz

When I check the URL I get
The stream URL is not valid or is not currently available

Bump !