Get iPlayer Automator
Get iPlayer Automator is a macOS app for downloading BBC iPlayer and STV programmes and adding them to Apple’s TV or Music apps.
What is Get iPlayer Automator?
Get iPlayer Automator is a native macOS utility for downloading television and radio programmes from BBC iPlayer and selected STV content to your Mac. It is designed for people who want to save programmes for local playback and organize them inside Apple’s media apps rather than stream everything in a browser. The app can search or queue programmes, handle series-style automatic downloading, and add completed downloads to TV.app or Music.app with metadata. It also supports workflows for keeping up with regular shows and moving media to other Apple devices through the normal Apple media ecosystem. Get iPlayer Automator is published by Ascoware LLC and is used primarily as a focused media-download helper on Mac.
Key features
- Download BBC iPlayer programmes to your Mac
- Download selected STV programmes for local playback
- Queue and manage recurring programme downloads
- Add completed video downloads to TV.app automatically
- Add radio downloads to Music.app with metadata
- Organize downloaded media inside Apple’s media library
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Safety overview
Status: Mostly safe
This app is legitimate media-download software for macOS. It needs network access to find and download programmes, and it can add finished media into your Apple TV or Music library as part of its normal job. Because it manages downloaded media and library imports, removing it will stop those workflows but will not normally remove media you already saved unless you delete the media files separately. Use it only for content and account access you are authorized to use, and review its download locations if you want to manage storage use.
Recommendation: Keep Get iPlayer Automator if you use your Mac to download and organize BBC or STV programmes for offline viewing or listening. If you no longer use those workflows, you can remove the app and then separately decide whether to keep or delete any downloaded media it created.
Common paths
/Applications/Get iPlayer Automator.app
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