Comments on: Ongoing BBC iPlayer Hack Battle

By: tmax

tmax — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 20:36:16 +0000

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

By: knuxte

knuxte — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 19:04:25 +0000

finally I can watch DR Who season 4 in the US

By: clartsonly

clartsonly — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 21:43:55 +0000

this no longer work

By: Wei

Wei — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 22:03:10 +0000

Hi,I got error.
file was found, but download failed.

By: Paul Battley

Paul Battley — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 07:45:59 +0000

I've made it a bit easier for Windows users, by packaging everything up into a simple GUI application.

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Fri, 23 May 2008 16:01:43 +0000

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?

By: hack

hack — Fri, 23 May 2008 11:58:27 +0000

should work

By: hack

hack — Fri, 23 May 2008 11:57:48 +0000

put iplayer-dl in your cmd dir

By: S.C.

S.C. — Sat, 17 May 2008 13:05:20 +0000

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?

By: James

James — Thu, 01 May 2008 12:48:08 +0000

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.