ellnic / get-iplayer-automator

The goal of Get iPlayer Automator is to allow iTunes and your Mac to become the hub for your British Television experience regardless of where in the world you are. Currently, Get iPlayer Automator allows you to download and watch BBC and ITV shows on your Mac. Series-Link/PVR functionality ensures you will never miss your favourite shows. Programmes are fully tagged and added to iTunes automatically upon completion. It is simple and easy to use, and runs on any machine running Mac OS X 10.7 or later. And since the shows are in iTunes, it is extremely easy to transfer them to your iPod, iPhone, or Apple TV allowing you to enjoy your shows on the go or on your television.

What is it?

The goal of Get iPlayer Automator is to allow iTunes and your Mac to become the hub for your British Television experience regardless of where in the world you are. Currently, Get iPlayer Automator allows you to download and watch BBC and ITV shows on your Mac. Series-Link/PVR functionality ensures you will never miss your favourite shows. Programmes are fully tagged and added to iTunes automatically upon completion. It is simple and easy to use, and runs on any machine running Mac OS X 10.7 or later. And since the shows are in iTunes, it is extremely easy to transfer them to your iPod, iPhone, or Apple TV allowing you to enjoy your shows on the go or on your television.

The current release is 1.9.7.

What if I find a bug?

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Version history

1.9.7

• Fixed bug in synchronization of multiple ITV downloads with subtitles.

1.9.6

• Updated the about box to point to this web site for more information.

1.9.5

• More ITV download fixes
• Undid the XBMC naming change
• Self-updating is back! From this version on, you will automatically be notified of updates when they are available.

1.9.4

• More bug fixes

1.9.3

• Addressed some issues related to the change in ITV downloads.

1.9.2

• Incorporated get_iplayer 3.02 -- This means the option for using the show thumbnail instead of the series thumbnail can be removed, as this is now the default behavior.
• Fixed slow caching by including needed Perl libraries
• Rewrote downloading of ITV program metadata to use built-in macOS networking code
• Removed the 'provided' proxy option, as the tom-tech.com backend that it relied upon no longer exists.

1.9b6:

• Turned on update checking. This is almost ready to go.
• Fixed a few more places where it didn't detect the end of the download.

1.9b5:

• Fixed lowest quality recording names.
• Added option to retrieve 50 FPS shows, if available.
• Fixed detecting completed download when no tagging has happened.

1.9b4:

• Changed some framework loading options for compatibility with Gatekeeper on 10.9.

1.9b3:

• Changed UI and options to use "Best", "Better", "Very Good", and so on for BBC TV and radio downloads. These map to the corresponding options in get_iplayer, and allow get_iplayer to pick the best available show formats.
• The formerly alternative 'ITV quick caching' is now the default method for getting ITV listings.
• Recordings are now saved without underscores in the names. App now uses the --whitespace option from get_iplayer.
• Deployment target/minimum version restored to 10.7.

1.9b2:

• Restored searching of ITV archives
• Fixed bug with generation of Application Support folder.

1.9b1:

• Integrated get_iplayer 3.01