bfi_player_search is a Ruby gem which provides a page scraped API for searching the programmes available for streaming from the BFI player

$ gem install bfi_player_search

Or with Bundler in your Gemfile.

gem 'bfi_player_search'

require 'bfi_player_search'

bfi_search = BFIPlayerSearch::Search.new

results = bfi_search.search('a most wanted man')

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