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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.
(Score: 2) by elf on Tuesday November 04 2014, @02:20PM
with the iplayer you can download content on most devices and watch it in your own time, for those that use a VPN its always a luck game (all content providers try to stop this). The iplayer is available on almost all devices I know.
Just because its free it doesn't mean you can do what you want with it, we all would love it to be but that's not how life generally work.