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Saepirist

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About Saepirist

https://www.movieofthenight.com/

Recent public activity

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    Comment #40307364

    Hey, congrats on the launch. I noticed that you are using my API ( https://www.movieofthenight.com/about/api ) to get the streaming availability data, but I couldn't see any attrib…

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    Comment #37714150

    Hi all, I wrote a Go tutorial on Medium about how to write a simple movie recommender based on users’ subscribed streaming services. It goes over how to search for the movies on th…

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    Comment #29881384

    Hi, there's also a 'country' parameter to filter country availability. i.e. if you set 'service' as 'netflix' and 'country' as 'us', it will only return shows available in Netflix …

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    Comment #29880582

    Hey, do you wanna have a regular dataset export or a one time export? You can message me over RapidAPI or LinkedIn to discuss. My linkedin profile is in About page of the link I po…

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    Comment #29868830

    Thank you, really cool the hear that!

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    Comment #29868693

    Thank you! I'm making profit off the API.

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    Comment #29868160

    Thank you! Nice to see the compare page is being useful to people.

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    Comment #29868131

    Hey, those are some valid concerns. Scrapping is still a gray legal area but recently there were some court decisions in favor of scrapping already publicly available data. The API…

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    Comment #29868069

    Thank you!

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    Comment #29867973

    Hey, it's nice to see you people under this post. Regarding your suspicion, surely this is not the first time someone making a smaller-scale, more humble and cheaper version of a f…

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    Comment #29865883

    Haha, sorry. But actually it's pretty much it. You need VPNs to check catalogs in different countries, which is tricky for some services (like Netflix) as they try to block VPNs. S…

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    Comment #29865481

    Currently it only shows free (included with Prime) shows on Prime Video. I just checked it and Mad Men is only available for buying or via AMC+ channel subscription.

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    Comment #29865237

    API doesn't offer that feature out of the box but I believe you can pull off that with a bit of extra coding on top.

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    Comment #29864987

    I do have my algorithm to match them with IMDb/TMDb ids, though of course it's not always 100% correct.

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    Comment #29864979

    Depends on the service any of these might be needed.

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    Comment #29864952

    Thank you! Yes, I'm planning to add more details like these.

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    Comment #29864919

    Thanks for the suggestion, planning to add more details about these kinds of things.

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    Comment #29864913

    Thank you!

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    Comment #29864902

    The data is updated daily, so new/removed movies shouldn't be a problem.

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    Comment #29864894

    Thanks for letting me know! Gonna check it.

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    Comment #29863256

    You can have that by signing in. Once you have couple of stuff in your favorites list, in Feed page a new row called "Movies for You" and "Series for You" will appear. Though right…

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    Comment #29863222

    Hey, just checked, in Germany it's available to buy on Apple TV but not it's not part of Apple TV+. Currently the API only supports Apple TV+.

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    Comment #29863116

    It's available on the API, you can use /get/ultra endpoint to see in which countries a show is available. Planning to add that feature to the web app as well.

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    Comment #29863102

    Thank you! There's already a recommendation engine I've made actually, it's the home page of the link I put: https://www.movieofthenight.com/