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BBC iPlayer authentication error

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Plugin Issue

This is a plugin issue and I have read the contribution guidelines.

Description

When attempting to stream from iplayer I’m receiving the following error:

[cli][debug] OS:         Windows 10
[cli][debug] Python:     3.7.4
[cli][debug] Streamlink: 1.2.0+22.g6ac9ee0
[cli][debug] Requests(2.22.0), Socks(1.7.1), Websocket(0.56.0)
[cli][info] Found matching plugin bbciplayer for URL https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03wc5kx/andys-dinosaur-adventures-2-diplodocus-and-fern
[cli][debug] Plugin specific arguments:
[cli][debug]  --bbciplayer-username=********@gmail.com (username)
[cli][debug]  --bbciplayer-password=******** (password)
[plugin.bbciplayer][info] A TV License is required to watch BBC iPlayer streams, see the BBC website for more information: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/help/tvlicence
[plugin.bbciplayer][error] Could not authenticate, check your username and password

Reproduction steps / Explicit stream URLs to test

This is affecting me with all iplayer streams. My config file hasn’t changed and I am still able to login via the BBC website using the same credentials.

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 4 years ago
Reactions:1
Comments:12 (6 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

2reactions

mkblokecommented, Nov 28, 2019

It seems that ptrt_url is no longer found via the history search in auth_check() after the login data has been sent.

The login process itself still appears to be working correctly, as far as I can see. If I change the code to just return true at the end of login(), I can successfully get a live programme stream or stream an iPlayer programme via catch up.

1reaction

tmatthews5511commented, Dec 13, 2019

Yes, that patch works very well. I can now sleep again.

Thanks Ian!

On Thu, 12 Dec 2019 at 13:22, Ian Cameron notifications@github.com wrote:

This might be the right fix…

bbciplayer.py.patch.txt https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink/files/3957891/bbciplayer.py.patch.txt

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