In 2011 & 2012 I used Perl to read the programs broadcast by the Channel 4 of the BBC, on a particular day.
I analysed this using excel functions having opened a ‘workbook’ with the argument ‘(“$url_file")’.
I have tried to do this today, for the first time after at least 6 years, but found that this did not work.
The Perl below shows the problem.
You can see that the web site defined for variable $fund_url is the schedule simply by using this address in a web browser.
getstore fails by returning a value of 501.
The code is
use strict "vars"; use LWP::Simple; my ($epg_dir, $fund_url, $fund_item, $url_file, $store_res); $epg_dir = "C:\\evoke-recordings\\epg_files"; if(-d $epg_dir) { print "epg file <$epg_dir> is there\n"; } else { print "epg file <$epg_dir> is NOT there\n"; } $fund_url = "http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/programmes/schedules/fm/2015 +/10/13"; print "\nfund_url <$fund_url>\n"; $fund_item = "2015_10_13_epg"; print "\nfund_item <$fund_item>\n"; $url_file = $epg_dir . '\\' . $fund_item . ".html"; print "\nurl_file <$url_file>\n"; $store_res = getstore($fund_url, $url_file); print "\nstore_res <$store_res>\n";
The output from this
epg file <C:\evoke-recordings\epg_files> is there
fund_url <http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/programmes/schedules/fm/2015/10/13>
fund_item <2015_10_13_epg>
url_file <C:\evoke-recordings\epg_files\2015_10_13_epg.html>
store_res <501>

Can any Monk explain how I can make this work again?

In reply to getstore failure for BBC website by merrymonk

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