Command line tool to get the radio station urls...

bbc_radio

#!/usr/bin/python

import sys
from urllib2 import urlopen
from ConfigParser import ConfigParser
from StringIO import StringIO

stations = {
   'radio1': '57286085',
   'radio2': '57286086',
   'radio3': '57874420',
   'radio4': '57874419',
   'radio4extra': '57874434',
   'radio5live': '57874445',
   '6music': '57286093'
}

def get_station_url(station):
   stationId = stations[station]
   redirect = urlopen('http://stream.radiotime.com/listen.stream?streamId=' + stationId)
   playlist = urlopen(redirect.geturl()).read()

   try:
      config = ConfigParser()
      config.readfp(StringIO(playlist))
      print config.get('playlist', 'file1')   
   except:
      # assume it's just a single line with the URL
      print playlist.strip()

if __name__ == '__main__':

   if not len(sys.argv) > 1:
      print 'Enter a station... %s' % ','.join(stations.keys())

   get_station_url(sys.argv[1])