They say "streaming" but mean "video streaming". I thought it included music too but it does not.
Show HN: API to query catalogs of 20 streaming services across 60 countries
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#42My ublock origin adblocker is blocking ShareButton.js because of "Fanboy's Annoyance" filter list (a default one) and not loading ShareButton.js leads to a blank page.
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Re: Show HN: API to query catalogs of 20 streaming services across 60 countries
#43My ublock origin adblocker is blocking ShareButton.js because of "Fanboy's Annoyance" filter list (a default one) and not loading ShareButton.js leads to a blank page.
Thanks for letting me know! Gonna check it.
Re: Show HN: API to query catalogs of 20 streaming services across 60 countries
#44Hi people, I've been working on this API for sometime now. Thought I'd share it here too. This API allows you to query what's available on 20 streaming services (including Netflix, Prime, HBO Max, Disney+, Hulu) across 60 countries. You can get the list of shows with filters such as release year, genre, IMDb rating etc. You can also get a show's global streaming availability via its IMDb or TMDb id. The output includ…
I'm curious how you keep the results up to date -- found a similar thing (without an API), and found lots of wrong results as services add and drop movies.
The data is updated daily, so new/removed movies shouldn't be a problem.
Re: Show HN: API to query catalogs of 20 streaming services across 60 countries
#45My ublock origin adblocker is blocking ShareButton.js because of "Fanboy's Annoyance" filter list (a default one) and not loading ShareButton.js leads to a blank page.
Thx for explaining why I see a blank page, I have the same problem.
Re: Show HN: API to query catalogs of 20 streaming services across 60 countries
#46Hi people, I've been working on this API for sometime now. Thought I'd share it here too. This API allows you to query what's available on 20 streaming services (including Netflix, Prime, HBO Max, Disney+, Hulu) across 60 countries. You can get the list of shows with filters such as release year, genre, IMDb rating etc. You can also get a show's global streaming availability via its IMDb or TMDb id. The output includ…
This is great! This is exactly what I've been waiting for someone to do. Google has done this on their "Google TV" device for some time, you search for a show and it shows you results across all of your streaming apps, it's not perfect but it knows where most things are, and I was wondering when I'd see an independent person release either an API or an App that does something similar. Good stuff!
Thank you!
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#47I would kill for language options on this. Having been studying Arabic while living in Northern Europe, none of the streaming services have Arabic dubbed shows. The only thing I’ve found is the expanse, which itself is in a different dialect than what I’m studying. Being able to easily search by language availability and subtitle availability would be wonderful.
Thanks for the suggestion, planning to add more details about these kinds of things.
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#48Great website! One thing that is missing: Availability is not the only criteria people use. One example: Last month I wanted to watch Superhero Movie, but I was in Spain, where a lot of movies are dubbed. I found out it was available on Amazon Prime (via another similar website to the one in the submission) but when I tried to watch it, it was only available in Spanish voice with English/Spanish subtitles, so obvious…
Thank you! Yes, I'm planning to add more details like these.
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thank you! The data is updated daily by automated tools that checks the services regularly.
This seems like the hard part. Does it need accounts with all the services, use a VPN to appear to be in each country, use a fake/rotating User Agent, etc
Depends on the service any of these might be needed.
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#50This is cool! At my day job I work on a lot of entity resolution/record linkage and have wanted to do something like this for TV/movie content. Maybe also linking against (ahem) non-official sources. How are you disambiguating different shows and movies and linking them to IMDb/TMDb?
I do have my algorithm to match them with IMDb/TMDb ids, though of course it's not always 100% correct.