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BBC Removes RSS Feeds, Breaks 3rd-party iPlayer Apps on Purpose

posted by LaminatorX on Sunday November 02 2014, @05:21PM   Printer-friendly
from the touching-your-stuff dept.

jbernardo writes:

The BBC decided to shut down the RSS feeds for the iplayer without any kind of warning on Thursday. The excuse is the end of a larger hosting contract for those legacy sites, and the users are promised some day in the future an API, called Nitro, to access the same kind of info. However, the head of platform API, Jon Billings, makes it clear that the reason was to break third party players: In particular, the BBC does not sanction XBMC, get_iplayer or similar clients, and the iPlayer RSS feeds were never designed or intended to support them. Nitro will almost certainly not support their ways of working.

The Nitro API portal seems to be only for BBC corporate partners only, according to the comments on that blog post, so it will indeed be worthless to third parties like kodi or get-iplayer developers.

 
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  • (Score: 2) by nitehawk214 on Monday November 03 2014, @04:34PM

    by nitehawk214 (1304) on Monday November 03 2014, @04:34PM (#112651)

    Its not a surprise why nobody wants to pay for content, when companies make even free content difficult to use.

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