bbc_iplayer_search is a Ruby gem which provides a page scraped API for searching the programmes available for streaming from the BBC iPlayer
$ gem install bbc_iplayer_search
Or with Bundler in your Gemfile.
gem 'bbc_iplayer_search'
require 'bbc_iplayer_search'
iplayer_search = BBCIplayerSearch::Search.new
results = iplayer_search.search('eastenders')
Where the results are an array containing a hash for each result. Each
result has title, url, image_url and 'available' keys.