List of known interoperable scripts / programs
iPlayer Downloaders
These programs access the BBC's server to fetch indexes and download the video or sound files themselves.
Note: As of 10th March 2010, get_iplayer is no longer hosted on linuxcentre.net. There is a mailing list for get_iplayer at lists.infradead.org.
Several get_iplayer forks now exist, the most active ones being infradead.org and jjl@github. On 26th May 2010, a '2.77' release was made from the tree at git.infradead.org.
Any (agnostic) Platform
- iplayer-dl, An iPlayer downloader written in Ruby (Subversion repository)
- get_iplayer, Downloads, Indexes & Searches: TV, Radio, Embedded Video/Audio, Podcast & Subtitles. PVR capabilities. Flash RTMP support. Written in Perl.
Linux
- giPlayer, A python/gtk wrapper for get_iplayer.
MacOS
- iPlayer Downloader, Mac OS X Cocoa-based downloader. A collaboration between Lawrence Dudley and Math Campbell using Paul Battley's iplayer-dl.
- Beeb Downloader, Mac OS X Applescript-based GUI.
- Get_iPlayer_Automator Mac OS X GUI based on get_iplayer code (supports multiple quality settings including HD)
Windows
- StreamTransport, freeware program that downloads Flash streams to file (seems to require Internet Explorer with Flash Player plugin installed).
- iplayer-dl GUI, Windows XP/Vista GUI (source) Note: this will only download the iPhone version of TV programmes, or radio programmes.
Xbox
- xbmc-iplayerv2, XBMC plugin written in Python.
- xbmc-iplayer, XBMC plugin written in Python - no longer maintained
Associated Tools (wrappers, scripts, flv & rtsp streamers etc)
These tools make the above downloader programs more useful.
Platform agnostic
- flvstreamer, A tool that downloads RTMP iPlayer video streams (This is a fork of rtmpdump with RTMPE support removed and many more features - get_iplayer uses this tool, written in C).
- xbmc-iplayer, An XBMC Script which can also work as a plugin script under the platform agnostic Boxee. See this guide in the Boxee forums.
- iplayer-dl Automator, A wrapper for iplayer-dl written in BASH.
- BeebhackDownloader, A class for downloading iPlayer video. Written in Java.
- Web PVR Manager, A web front-end to get_iplayer PVR with advanced Search and streaming functionality. Written in Perl.
- rtmpdump, A tool that downloads RTMP iPlayer video streams (including RTMPE) written in C, includes additional tools for streaming and discovering stream parameters.
- cgi_get_iplayer.pl - a simple and hacky perl script which presents a web interface to get_iplayer, and makes downloaded flash videos playable using the JFW player.
iPhone
- ipl2iph, A Bash script for downloading and playing iPlayer programmes from a (jailbroken) iPhone using iplayer-dl and other tools.
Linux
- MythVodka MythTV plugin, uses get_iplayer.
MacOS
- iPlayer Grabber, Native Cocoa app with integrated iPlayer browser using Paul Battley's iplayer-dl.
- iPlayer-DL Automator GUI, Applescript Studio-based GUI.
- iPlayer Downloader native Cocoa program using Phil Lewis's get_iplayer.
- Get iPlayer Automator, Cocoa GUI for get_iplayer.
Windows
- Web PVR Manager, A web front-end to get_iplayer PVR with advanced Search and streaming functionality (also included in the Windows Automated Installer for get_iplayer).