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BBC iPlayer video download

Easily download videos from BBC iPlayer (with youtube-dl)

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Flacito 2020/02/01
Bad Stopped working - update please I love the script but it stopped working :(
Peter Hutt 2018/12/28
Last: LazzaAuthor 2018/12/29
Bad Stopped working After the reccent BBC website redesign (and renaming of the iPlayer) this script seems to have stopped working.
lynicar 2018/05/04
Last: LazzaAuthor 2018/05/05
Can't find subtitle download option The subtitle option does not appear. And after trying several programmes and even reinstalling my browser, it didn't work. So will you please upgrade to fix t...
Vero Fan 2018/03/23
Last: LazzaAuthor 2018/03/24
No subtitle download option now Hi~There used to be subtitle download options under the y-dl command lines, but now they are gone. Will there be a update to fix this?
Peter Whinham 2017/09/05
Last: Peter Whinham 2017/10/02
Good A glitch with " kind ==='trailer' " Hi Lazza Just contacting you to let you know that I've discovered a glitch (and my own temporary work-around) in v4.0.5 of BBC iPlayer video download. When I ...
Jeroen Wijnands 2017/08/20
Last: LazzaAuthor 2017/08/20
not working At least for radio. Fragmented files that are almost unusuable. I had to resort to the good old get_iplayer
Goga Moga 2017/05/01
Last: LazzaAuthor 2017/06/23
Bad Script not working as good as previous one The updated script is not functioning as the old one did, all this script does, converts the intros of the content, while the actual content is not downl...
Peter Whinham 2017/04/27
Last: LazzaAuthor 2017/05/22
Good The script has stopped working today Up until last night, the script was working fine. Today, in both Chrome and Firefox I'm no longer getting the grey box with the ffmpeg text. The BBC seem to ha...
Doc Flay 2017/05/02
Last: Goga Moga 2017/05/04
Problem with v4 and a tip for v3 2 things.... 1) My first attempt with the new script (v4.0.3) and this page is giving me a 2 MB download, also FFMPEG does not know what to do with it. http://www...
Taz Sandrin 2016/01/15
Last: peterSVS 2017/03/11
Bad the script stopped working Before the update, everything worked fine. After the update , no download link shows up. Tried both greasemonkey and tampermonkey wit this script, same thing. My VPN is ...
Doc Flay 2017/01/09
Last: LazzaAuthor 2017/01/14
Good iPlayer powered articles Would it be possible to include the article pages, or would I have to edit my copy for the specific page ? The David Bowie documentaries have other companion films not in ...
Doc Flay 2016/11/06
Last: Doc Flay 2017/01/09
Good Request for old PCs and phones Thanks for this wonderful script. Even though I am in the UK I still rely on it, because I often use older OSs that lack HW decoding in web browsers, so video is lag...
Doc Flay 2016/12/21
Last: Doc Flay 2017/01/08
[Suggestion] Link upgrade/change Could you please tweak the script so that HTTPS is used instead ? Similar to the subtitles links, It also would be more convenient for link copying, or clicking, i...
Peter Whinham 2016/10/25
Last: LazzaAuthor 2016/10/26
Error messages Hi. For the past few weeks, ffmpeg has been giving this error at the start of every download - "[h264 @ 0000000001cc2720] non-existing SPS 0 referenced in buffering period Las...
Paulo Guerreiro 2016/08/11
Last: LazzaAuthor 2016/08/13
Good iPlayer Script Absolutely amazing. Works perfectly with ffmpeg.exe, only small issue that I corrected with Kodi, probably my bad. The script downloads perfectly with a VPN and almost 720p. Changed...
Fabio Massimi 2016/07/13
Last: LazzaAuthor 2016/07/15
Subtitles After the last upgrade, the subtitles links don't appear. I'm using Mozilla and Greasemonkey.
peterSVS 2016/04/10
Last: Peter Whinham 2016/05/31
Script stopped working again First noticed the failure on 4/7/16, last worked for me a week earlier. It looks like the URL that the script is generating is Null. Did the Bbc change something aga...
Freddy Friedrichs 2016/01/17
Last: LazzaAuthor 2016/02/05
Bad errormessage in newest version At first thanks a lot for writing and updating this great script. In the newest version i get an error: [mp4 @ 000000000202e100] pts < dts in stream 0 av_interlea...
tp 2016/01/15
Last: tp 2016/01/15
Good Very useful just rating. Works as it says. Very useful for a UK-based person using Linux, which has no official BBC download manager.

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