Would be nice if it supported Kanopy, it has an eclectic catalog for free if accessed with a library card.
Show HN: API to query catalogs of 20 streaming services across 60 countries
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Re: Show HN: API to query catalogs of 20 streaming services across 60 countries
#72Pricing:
https://rapidapi.com/movie-of-the-night-movie-of-the-night-d...
Free/Basic: 100/day
Pro: 30k/mo @ $9.90/mo
Ultra: 100k/mo @ $29.90/mo
Mega: 1M/mo @ $99.90/mo
Re: Show HN: API to query catalogs of 20 streaming services across 60 countries
#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
Reminds me of https://www.justwatch.com/ which is a non-API version. Did they roll their own? Do they use your service?
It's all in-house, available in 84 countries and supports thousands of streaming services. There is an API but it's mostly available to larger partners: https://www.justwatch.com/us/JustWatch-Streaming-API Source: I work at JustWatch.
JustWatch is great.
There's a trend in my country (Italy) where old movies are being remastered in HD but not published on Blu-ray. Instead, they're only made available on one out of a half dozen or so streaming services. JustWatch helps me immensely to spot new releases like that!
Re: Show HN: API to query catalogs of 20 streaming services across 60 countries
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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.
I‘m curious as well, as for so many countries ingesting and matching that catalogue including error correction is currently a full time job for more than a dozen people over 6 years and 10k+ per month in infrastructure costs. Will check for canary traps tomorrow as I‘m suspecting they‘re just scraping us or our competitors. This is far too expensive to build for how cheap they‘re selling it. Source: I work at JustWat…
> Will check for canary traps tomorrow as I‘m suspecting they‘re just scraping us or our competitors.
I bite: Aren't you also just scraping others?
Re: Show HN: API to query catalogs of 20 streaming services across 60 countries
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Also 'Succession' is available in Germany on Apple TV+, the search says otherwise (not available at all in Germany).
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+.
Oh ok, I misunderstood that. Thanks.
Re: Show HN: API to query catalogs of 20 streaming services across 60 countries
#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
Reminds me of https://www.justwatch.com/ which is a non-API version. Did they roll their own? Do they use your service?
It's all in-house, available in 84 countries and supports thousands of streaming services. There is an API but it's mostly available to larger partners: https://www.justwatch.com/us/JustWatch-Streaming-API Source: I work at JustWatch.
Can I use it to find foreign films? Right now my best option is yts torrent tracker[0] but there's a ton of hindi films which I don't really like.
Would be cool to find all non-english films from europe and america.
0: https://yts.mx/browse-movies/0/all/all/8/latest/0/foreign
Re: Show HN: API to query catalogs of 20 streaming services across 60 countries
#77I 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.
Not streaming but https://yts.mx/browse-movies/0/all/all/8/latest/0/foreign has pretty good catalogue
IMDB itself lets you filter by language: https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?title_type=feature&releas... but it's PITA to then go and search for these films
Re: Show HN: API to query catalogs of 20 streaming services across 60 countries
#78Very nice. Maybe you could build a recommendation engine on top, Netflix seems to have a knack for recommending things I've already seen. Relies in me telling you which films I like of course, or an existing similar dataset.
I would assume that's quite a hard project, considering that even for Netflix it took two decades of research and world-class AI competition(s?) with a million dollar prize(s?) :
https://netflixtechblog.com/netflix-recommendations-beyond-t...
(Note that was for the much more USA-focused DVD by mail Netflix, so the current problem might be even harder to figure out !)
Re: Show HN: API to query catalogs of 20 streaming services across 60 countries
#79Nice, maybe someone could finally make a site that shows how many and which specific streaming services are needed to cover top20 movies and tv series of the year.
How would you define top 20 movies of the year? What would be the criteria?
Pick a site and use their list.
I.e. IMDb, trakt.tv, rotten tomatoes etc.
Re: Show HN: API to query catalogs of 20 streaming services across 60 countries
#80One of our customers is using your API to automatically generate news for upcoming/changing/leaving shows. Keep up the good work!