How to use iView (ABC Australia) downloaders

[BNW]

Originally Posted by yagasill

On the right hand side of the program picture there is a share arrow click and then copy link this will give the usable url links with the id number and episode name copy to clipboard

Thanks .. silly me tried right-click to copy the link and nothing happened.

[yagasill]

I just tried the SBSDL -V4.2 updated to the latest utube-dl and I can download the ABC programs back-in-time-for-dinner copy and paste the link into getvideo in the program and it starts up ok DECRYPTED 650MB and the srt file present

[GBDesk]

Originally Posted by pcspeak

In your browser perhaps change to:
https://iview.abc.net.au/programs/ZW1506A001S00

Does that work for you?

I was thinking I might get a frame with the JW player showing that video but instead I get just the show's main page. Not a big issue. It does work with youtube-dl which, in part, reports:

[generic] ZW1506A001S00: Requesting header
[redirect] Following redirect to https://iview.abc.net.au/show/city-a.../ZW1506A001S00
[debug] Using fake IP 1.131.162.50 (AU) as X-Forwarded-For.
[abc.net.au:iview] ZW1506A001S00: Downloading JSON metadata
[abc.net.au:iview] ZW1506A001S00: Downloading webpage
[abc.net.au:iview] ZW1506A001S00: Downloading m3u8 information

So, DL'ing is not a problem.

[pcspeak]

Someone asked.
Package an ABC download in an MKV container, with subtitles added.
My batch file, 'ff MP4+subs-MKV v01.cmd'
Needs 'ffmpeg.exe' in the same directory - or modify the paths.

:: ABC - MP4+Subs to MKV
@echo off
:: vtt to srt
for %%a in (*.vtt) do ffmpeg -i "%%a" -y "%%~na.srt"
:: mp4+srt to mkv
 for %%a in ("*.srt") do if exist "%%~na.mp4" ffmpeg.exe -i "%%~na.mp4" -f srt -i "%%a" -map 0:0 -map 0:1 -map 1:0 -c:v copy -c:a copy -c:s srt -y "%%~na.mkv"

Cheers.

[gxdata]

Away for 6 days

[mce]

Hi all, Just checking in as it has been a while.

[pcspeak]

Hi and welcome back.]

[spin35]

Been a while too, anything new happenin'?

[BNW]

Has anyone else noticed that iview has stopped working with yt-dl (and dependent applications) in the past few days? It was working Monday but not today. I tried several shows .. and they all give the same "is not a valid url" error.

Pcspeak's latest script to "get list" is only getting eps up until the end of last week. Nothing newer is showing, but they are up on the website. Url's for eps this week taken from the website give the not valid error. Have the latest version of yt-dl.

[BNW]

Continued ...

I notice there's a moderator-deleted post on the SBS forum on monday, which is probably someone asking the same thing there.

Using pcspeak's latest ABC script, selecting an old ep from a previous week and changing the episode number in the program ID works (making an educated guess as to what it is). Messy tho' and it does rename the file to the older episode (I didn't try changing that .. one variable at a time). No idea why this workaround works when yt-dl itself does not work, but then I know zilch of coding so no idea what the abc script is doing differently that allows it to work.

Update: I'm now having mixed success throwing guessed url's for this week at naked yt-dl. But it's very slow. School holidays?