How to use iView (ABC Australia) downloaders

[Wahroonga Farm]

Originally Posted by Anywho

...I've fixed the batch file version now - v15.81 - ...

It's sweet.

[Anywho]

Originally Posted by Wahroonga Farm

It's sweet.

Thank you for your feedback!

[ComStraker]

Erm looks like illegal characters problem in Iviewnapper getting a file with "s*d" in the comedy section...by the way am a programmer, I like these programs alot and could help if someone developing them wants contact me.

[gxdata]

Originally Posted by ComStraker

Erm looks like illegal characters problem in Iviewnapper getting a file with "s*d" in the comedy section...by the way am a programmer, I like these programs alot and could help if someone developing them wants contact me.

Yes, see the previous page in this forum to get the latest version of the batch downloader (15.81) until mce does the next fix of iViewNapper.

' This uses the full list of invalid characters - regex method (FASTEST)
'  aesthetics: poor 
    Function CleanInput(ByVal strIn As String) As String
        Dim sb = New StringBuilder()
        Dim invalids = System.IO.Path.GetInvalidPathChars().Union(System.IO.Path.GetInvalidFileNameChars())

        ' Build the regex
        sb.Append("[")
        For Each c In invalids
            sb.Append("\") 
            sb.Append(c)
        Next c
        sb.Append("]")

        ' this is our regex
        Dim re = New System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex(sb.ToString())

          ' Underscore is safe enough - but ugly
        Return re.Replace(strIn, "_")

    End Function

[mce]

Both iViewNapper and iViewNapperLite have been updated to fix the illegal character in filenames problem.

Please check the websites for the new versions (20101217).

A reload of the browser cache may be required.

[gxdata]

mce, suggest you attach the same URL fetch code to the [Catch Up] button, as you would have used in the initial population of the listbox - ie, reading the series catalog by a fetch from http://tviview.abc.net.au/iview/api2/?seriesIndex

batch downloader has a similar refresh capacity (I assume the URL is the same that you are using)

(otherwise, I find I need to quit iViewNapper in order to do that refresh)

[mce]

iViewNapper Version 20101218.

• Ctrl CatchUp reloads JSON data.

iViewNapperLite Version 20101218.

• Ctrl click on picture reloads JSON data.

[gxdata]

Just a for-information-only post, on iView's cataloguing omissions (with thousands of shows current, it's probably getting to be more difficult for the ABC workers to track these things ).

Notice the school holiday flavour (not really my taste in shows).

Done on 05/01/2011, with Batch Downloader v15.81 with editing of the download_list.xml

timmy time 1/20-21
timmy time 1/26
peppa pig 3/9
bob builder 15/5
bookaboo 1/8
chuggington 2/12
gimme 3/1
Mister Maker 2/18
arthur 4/10

NOT FOUND: Mister Maker 2/19

Interesting that with the Batch Downloader, even though Arthur Series 4 was no longer listed, a simple edit of the xml file worked.

[gxdata]

iView player (website) is OK, but the downloaders are not connecting - approx 20:20PM AEST.

Have they changed the internals or the JSON format again? If so, how can I detect that?

[Edit]
+ 3 hours and it seems OK to download (Gardening Aust 21/46)

[by-gum]

I am a newbie to this but I have some s/w development experience.

Can anyone help with iView_Downloader_OSX? I run v6.8 which fixes the problem of the ABC Index having moved, but I have also tried v6.7.3 (after updating the index bit) with the same result.

I run a PPC G5 with 10.5.8 and took the precaution of building rtmpdump using Macports.

The error is shown below.
Is the fact that the host and token are blank/empty significant?

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Select a number to add a show to download list, 'a' adds all,
0 adds nothing, and 's' allows you to search this list:
377


Please Select an Option
1. Add another show to the download list
2. View the download list
3. Clear the download list
4. Download the list (Always attempts to retry)
5. Convert all files in download list
6. Exit
4
Number of downloads 1
Ok, you will be requesting mp4:deep_10_01_02
and saving the stream with the filename deep_10_01_02.mp4
Retrieving Token...
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 192 100 192 0 0 1081 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0
from ABC iView servers on
using the auth
Running Hostworks...
RTMPDump v2.2
(c) 2010 Andrej Stepanchuk, Howard Chu, The Flvstreamer Team; license: GPL
Error code 1
Sleeping for 5s
Ok, you will be requesting deep_10_01_02
and saving the stream with the filename deep_10_01_02.flv
Retrieving Token...
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 192 100 192 0 0 911 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0
from ABC iView servers on
using the auth
Running Hostworks...
RTMPDump v2.2
(c) 2010 Andrej Stepanchuk, Howard Chu, The Flvstreamer Team; license: GPL
Error code 1
Sleeping for 5s
etc ...
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Note:
I am trying this because I can't get the iViewfox addon in Firefox to work - any ideas there?