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Posted on 14.03.08 by Matt @ 3:29 pm
Boing Boing is pointing out that a new hack is available that sucks MP4s off of the iPlayer site and drops them onto your computer in all their DRM free glory. It is, however, quite complicated. (update: there's an easier version if you follow Paul's instructions in this comment) 1. First of all download and install Ruby for Windows 2. Download the file talked about here to your computer. Be sure to drop it in an easy to remember folder. I'm suggesting c:/downloads/ for the purpose of this example 3. Open the command prompt. In other words go to Start->Run and then type CMD and press return 4. Type 5. Type 6. Find the page on iPlayer that you want to download 7. Back at the command prompt type 8. It would then save the MP4 file in the /downloads directory 9. Rename the .mp4 bit .mov 10. You can now copy it into iTunes. Get it while you can! Remember you can get these straight to your inbox by entering your email address at the top right of this page. The RSS link is up there too. Comments: 15 Comments
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Nice one mate, just as a side note when i downloaded the script file it auto saved it as a .htm. Took me a while to realise, all working fine now though!
Comment by Billdad — March 20, 2008 @ 8:37 pm
side note – I was required to execute: ruby iplayer-dl with the .txt extension added
Comment by doofus — March 30, 2008 @ 3:27 pm
Matt, this seems only to work with some programmes, any idea why?
Comment by Bob — April 3, 2008 @ 2:58 pm
Bob, the reason some don’t work is this exploit works because of the way iPlayer streams to iPhone, programs no available to the iPhone, don’t work.
Comment by Sean — April 19, 2008 @ 11:38 pm
Can the format of the downloaded mp4’s be changed to 320×240 so that they will play on my walkman.
Comment by Michaela — April 26, 2008 @ 4:34 pm
it’s worth noting in step 7 that you don’t need the full address, just the 8 character code so for the above example “ruby iplayer-dl b009h61k” works just as well.
Comment by James — May 1, 2008 @ 1:48 pm
Just can’t get it to work – this is the most helpful guide to setting it up I’ve found on the net, but I get to point 7, and then I get a
ruby: Permission denide — iplayer-dl (LoadError)
message. Any ideas?
Comment by S.C. — May 17, 2008 @ 2:05 pm
put iplayer-dl in your cmd dir
Comment by hack — May 23, 2008 @ 12:57 pm
should work
Comment by hack — May 23, 2008 @ 12:58 pm
I get to step 7 also and then get this message once I’ve typed in the code thing, it says-
‘ruby’ is not recognised as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
Any tips? What am I doing wrong?
Comment by Rebecca — May 23, 2008 @ 5:01 pm
I’ve made it a bit easier for Windows users, by packaging everything up into a simple GUI application.
Comment by Paul Battley — June 3, 2008 @ 8:45 am
Hi,I got error.
file was found, but download failed.
Comment by Wei — June 8, 2008 @ 11:03 pm
this no longer work
Comment by clartsonly — July 27, 2008 @ 10:43 pm
finally I can watch DR Who season 4 in the US
Comment by knuxte — January 1, 2009 @ 7:04 pm
There is an addo for firefox that can fool websites into thinking that you are an mobile browser and if you find what the itouch / iphone safari is and call it that and then go to the player website and right click save as
Comment by tmax — January 4, 2009 @ 8:36 pm