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Re: Show HN: API to query catalogs of 20 streaming services across 60 countries

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Post by dewey » Mon, Jan 10, 2022, 10:33 AM UTC

wodenokoto wrote: post #90

dewey wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

You need a way to change language on your webpage. Many, if not most visitors from UAE cannot read Arabic, and most AE websites will in my experience default to English. But justwatch has seemingly no way to change from Arabic when visiting from UAE. If I go to justwaych.com/us, it changes to English, but now I suppose I am browsing US availability. Again, this isn't written anywhere, so I don't know if what I'm brow…

You can change language and country independently from each other. Just click on the Account settings in the top left/right corner (depending on locale) and change it there.

Re: Show HN: API to query catalogs of 20 streaming services across 60 countries

#92

Post by anaganisk » Mon, Jan 10, 2022, 5:09 PM UTC

Since you say you scrape via VPNs, can’t they just send you cease and desist like tomorrow morning? Worst case your payment service will lock your money?

Re: Show HN: API to query catalogs of 20 streaming services across 60 countries

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Post by ibdf » Mon, Jan 10, 2022, 7:20 PM UTC

Quick question... the filters let me select the Language the show is in, but I don't think that necessarily implies which country it's available in. Is there a way to filter per country/region the show is available in? I enjoy watching shows from different countries (different languages) but if they are not available in my country, then it doesn't matter.

Re: Show HN: API to query catalogs of 20 streaming services across 60 countries

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Post by Saepirist » Mon, Jan 10, 2022, 7:35 PM UTC

anomie31 wrote: post #89

Saepirist wrote: post #2

Hi 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 really cool, but could I have a dataset instead of an API, for any price?

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 posted. In RapidAPI page of the API, there's an about section with the button "Contact".

Re: Show HN: API to query catalogs of 20 streaming services across 60 countries

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Post by Saepirist » Mon, Jan 10, 2022, 8:10 PM UTC

ibdf wrote: post #93

Quick question... the filters let me select the Language the show is in, but I don't think that necessarily implies which country it's available in. Is there a way to filter per country/region the show is available in? I enjoy watching shows from different countries (different languages) but if they are not available in my country, then it doesn't matter.

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 US.

Re: Show HN: API to query catalogs of 20 streaming services across 60 countries

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Post by ibdf » Tue, Jan 11, 2022, 2:34 PM UTC

Saepirist wrote: post #95

ibdf wrote: post #93

Quick question... the filters let me select the Language the show is in, but I don't think that necessarily implies which country it's available in. Is there a way to filter per country/region the show is available in? I enjoy watching shows from different countries (different languages) but if they are not available in my country, then it doesn't matter.

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 US.

Thanks, I completely missed the country option at the bottom. The dropdown doesn't have a surrounding box, so it looked like it was just text to me.

Re: Show HN: API to query catalogs of 20 streaming services across 60 countries

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Post by account42 » Wed, Jan 19, 2022, 8:13 AM UTC

dewey wrote: post #91

wodenokoto wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You need a way to change language on your webpage. Many, if not most visitors from UAE cannot read Arabic, and most AE websites will in my experience default to English. But justwatch has seemingly no way to change from Arabic when visiting from UAE. If I go to justwaych.com/us, it changes to English, but now I suppose I am browsing US availability. Again, this isn't written anywhere, so I don't know if what I'm brow…

You can change language and country independently from each other. Just click on the Account settings in the top left/right corner (depending on locale) and change it there.

When not signed in, the button just says "Sign In", which is not something anyone would look for a language change option - doubly so if the "Sign In" in is in a foreign language. There is plenty of space to add a globe icon or something like it directly on the page there.