[SlimDevices: Plugins] BBCiPlayer - BBC Technology Blog post on API development

[florca]

Quite a detailed but ultimately depressing post on the BBC Technology
blog about their API development. Most of it sailed way over my head,
with lots of stuff very alien to my distant days of IBM Assembler
programming and more recent Perl kludging, but they're obviously making
lots of changes. Very depressing when you read their response to a
comment / question from Paul Webster in that they have obviously backed
away completely from any intention of providing an updated open API for
external consumption :(

Link here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/internet/entries/7e65dff6-9bf1-4f98-b185-3b424939c8ce



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[bpa]

Very depressing when you read their response to a comment / question
from Paul Webster in that they have obviously backed away completely
from any intention of providing an updated open API for external
consumption :(

"updated" !! there is no open API to be updated.

"Not for external consumption" is par for the course with BBC - the feed
BBCiPlayer plugin uses is a rare example and it is just one way.

That said, it is not realistic for BBC to provide and support APIs for
non-commercial users as much of the content is covered by various rights
agreements and a public API would probably means those rights could not
be policed effectively (e.g. copies made and then shared whole or in
part without acknowledgements) . This may change in the future as BBC
now allow download of some content.


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