Python command-line and GTK+ interface to ABC iView Copyright (C) 2009-2010 by Jeremy Visser [email protected]

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

Requirements

• Python 2.6 (recommended) or Python 2.5 http://www.python.org/ (Some Windows users report better compatibility with Python 2.5.)
• BeautifulSoup http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/
• rtmpdump http://lkcl.net/rtmp/
• simplejson http://pypi.python.org/pypi/simplejson/ (Only for Python 2.5 users -- same functionality is built-in to Python 2.6.)

Installation

1. Make sure Python is installed and working.
2. Make sure BeautifulSoup is installed in Python and working.
3. Install rtmpdump. If building from source, copy rtmpdump_x86 to somewhere within your $PATH (e.g. /usr/local/bin).
4. If you are running Python 2.5, install simplejson.
5. Either run ./iview-cli or ./iview-gtk.

Usage

Some usage examples are provided for your perusal.

This is a purely informational command, and verifies that handshaking is working correctly.

$ ./iview-cli --print-auth
iView auth data:
	Token: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
	RTMP URL: rtmp://203.18.195.10/ondemand
	Unmetered: True

This can be used to view the iView programme and find the program URL:

$ ./iview-cli --programme
7.30 Report:
    7.30 Report 12/01/10	(news/730report_100112.flv)
    7.30 Report 11/01/10	(news/730report_100111.flv)
    7.30 Report 07/01/10	(news/730report_100107.flv)
    7.30 Report 06/01/10	(news/730report_100106.flv)
[...]

To actually download the program, use something like the following:

$ ./iview-cli --download news/730report_100112.flv

If rtmpdump is all set up correctly, hopefully that will download an .flv file into your current directory, appropriately named. If it didn't work, type "rtmpdump" or "rtmpdump_x86" and see if it does anything. If not, install it, or put it somewhere on your $PATH.

Hacking

Uh...good luck.

:wq