The Big Stink

No. Searching by PID can just give more results (older than 7 days). The option --modes sets the quality. Binhex's script uses --modes=flashhd,flashvhigh,flashhigh,flashstd,flashnormal,flashlow You could try --modes best which downloads HD if available then falls back to SD, but I'm pretty sure that should be equivalent to Binhex's string anyway.

To watch TV, yes, however I think you can still access iPlayer radio outside of the UK. Not sure if get_iplayer would download the stream though.

As far as I know, you just have to get it from the URL for the iPlayer webpage. I don't think you can get it from get_iplayer. In terms of the above code, it makes a big assumption that the entered Series and entered PIDs match. I think something like this would work better (although I haven't tied it): /usr/bin/get_iplayer --profile-dir /config --pid --nopurge --modes=flashhd,flashvhigh,flashhigh,flashstd,flashnormal,flashlow --file-prefix="<nameshort>- <senum> - <episodeshort>" "${PIDLIST[index]}" --pid-recursive --output "/data/get_iplayer/incomplete/<nameshort>" The loop would need editing in case only PIDs were entered and therefore SHOWLIST was empty (and I don't think you can save your Docker config without entering a value for the Series variable), but I'm probably telling you what you already know!

Oops missed this bit from the loop: # strip whitespace from start and end of show_name show_name=$(echo "${SHOWLIST[index]}" | sed -e 's/^[ \t]*//')

This link gives the reason for preferring PID search rather than show search. https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/faq I'm new to Bash scripting so don't laugh.... # split comma seperated string into list from PID env variable IFS=',' read -ra PIDLIST <<< "${PID}" Then modified your loop to: # process each show in the list for index in "${!SHOWLIST[@]}"; do And added a test to see if PIDs are being used: if [[ -n "${PID}" ]]; then echo "[info] Running get_iplayer on PIDs..." # run get_iplayer for PID, saving to incomplete folder /usr/bin/get_iplayer --profile-dir /config --pid --nopurge --modes=flashhd,flashvhigh,flashhigh,flashstd,flashnormal,flashlow --file-prefix="${show_name} - <senum> - <episodeshort>" "${PIDLIST[index]}" --pid-recursive --output "/data/get_iplayer/incomplete/${show_name}" else # run get_iplayer for show, saving to incomplete folder echo "[info] Running get_iplayer on shows..." /usr/bin/get_iplayer --profile-dir /config --get --nopurge --modes=flashhd,flashvhigh,flashhigh,flashstd,flashnormal,flashlow --file-prefix="${show_name} - <senum> - <episodeshort>" "${show_name}" --output "/data/get_iplayer/incomplete/${show_name}" fi Basically you use --pid instead of --get. Also make sure --pid-recursive is added. There are probably cleaner ways to do this, as you can probably get the showname from get_iplayer (c.f. with your <senum> and <episodeshort> parameters), but it was just a test to see if I could get it working.

Get-iplayer is great, so thanks to binhex for making a Docker of it. Just a suggestion - it might be a good idea to include an option of searching by PID, as this can result in more shows being downloaded. I have this working for me - I just added a new variable "PID" to your Docker and edited your start.sh script. The script gets overwritten every time I edit the Docker or if it gets updated, so it would be nice if you could add something similar?