iPlayer Grabber is based on the excellent work of Paul Battley who produced the opensource iplayer-dl ruby script which forms the heart of iPlayer Grabber.

iPlayer Grabber does all the heavy lifting involved with actually downloading programs from the iPlayer site. What iPlayer Grabber gives you is a simple, native, Mac OS X interface to make using Paul's script much easier for non geeks and the lazy.

The main feature that iPlayer Grabber adds is its integrated iPlayer browser, use the app to browse around the iPlayer site, click a program you would like to save and you are prompted to download.

The programs will be saved as Quicktime .mov files (they are actually encoded using h.264, often referred to as MP4) and, thus, you can keep them for posterity and later watched on your Mac or video capable iPod (or a Windows or Linux PC for that matter).

NOTE: To be able to use iPlayer Grabber outside of the UK you will need to enter a UK based proxy in the preferences dialog.

Here are some key features of "iPlayer Grabber":

· Lets you download and save programs from the BBC's iPlayer
· Integrated browser for easy program selection, no cutting, pasting or extracting PIDs.
· Growl notifications - get a nice alert when your download completes (requires Growl to be installed, get it here).
· Experimental proxy support (since version 0.92).
· It's free (as in beer).

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Rolled in iplayer-dl 0.1.18 to fix missed problems missed in 0.1.17 (Even later Dec 2009)