Extract PIDs from BBC iPlayer programme pages

getbbcpid

#!/usr/bin/env python

"""Extract pids from a BBC iPlayer programme page.

usage: get_iplayer --pid $(getbbcpid <url>)
"""

from __future__ import print_function

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import requests


def getpid(url):
    soup = BeautifulSoup(requests.get(url).text, 'lxml')
    return ','.join(a.attrs['href'].split('/')[-2] for a in soup.find_all('a')
                    if 'href' in a.attrs and 'episode' in a.attrs['href'])


if __name__ == '__main__':
    from sys import argv
    print(getpid(argv[1]))