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nip - query BBC iplayer for selected tv categories, search for programmes by title, lookup programme info and download programmes using youtube-dl.
INSTALLATION
Dependencies
If you want to download iplayer programmes, You need to install youtube-dl.
If you have the Go programming language installed, you can run
go get -u github.com/mswift42/nip
to install nip.
Else, you can grab a binary from the releases section.
DESCRIPTION
nip builds a database of the most common iplayer tv categories, and stores that as a json file to disk. You can search for programmes by title or category, print a programmes synopsis, go to a programmes homepage, list related links for a programme and download programmes using youtube-dl.
LICENSE
nip is licensed under the MIT License.
COMMANDS
- list, l list all available categories.
- category, c list all programmes for a category.
- search, s search for a programme.
- show, sh open a programme's homepage.
- synopsis, syn print programme's synopsis
- links, lnk show related links for a programme
- download, g, d, get use youtube-dl to download programme with index n
- formats, f list youtube-dl formats for programme with index n
- refresh, r refresh programme db
USAGE
enter nip followed by the command you want to run.
Examples
nip l lists all categories,
nip c crime lists all programmes in category crime.
nip --help shows the help output.
nip s pride lists all programmes with "pride" in their title.
nip g 133 downloads programme with index 133 in the best available index.
nip g 133 <youtube-dl format> downloads it with the specified youtube-dl format.