bbc_iplayer_search is a Ruby gem which provides a page scraped API for searching the programmes available for streaming from the BBC iPlayer

$ gem install bbc_iplayer_search

Or with Bundler in your Gemfile.

gem 'bbc_iplayer_search'

require 'bbc_iplayer_search'

iplayer_search = BBCIplayerSearch::Search.new

results = iplayer_search.search('eastenders')

Where the results are an array containing a hash for each result. Each result has title, url, image_url and 'available' keys.