nip

nip - query BBC iplayer for selected tv categories, search for programmes by title, lookup programme info and download programmes using youtube-dl.

• INSTALLATION
• DESCRIPTION
• LICENSE
• COMMANDS
• USAGE

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 will list all categories,

nip c crime will all programmes in category crime.

nip --help will show the help output.

nip s pride will list all programmes with "pride" in their title.

nip g 133 will download programme with index 133 in the best available index.

nip g 133 <youtube-dl format> will download it with the specified youtube-dl format.