A fast, modern API for TV, Movies, Podcasts and more
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Re: A fast, modern API for TV, Movies, Podcasts and more
#2I'm working on an API that doesn't suck that will represent TV, Movies, Podcasts, WebTV, and other forms of media.
A stack-overflow inspired reputation system will reward community members to contribute translations, new shows, movies and corrections.
Background workers interface with EPGs, other APIs and streams of data from other sources.
An image proxy server means openmedia.io will do the heavy lifting delivering images in the dimensions that you want, backed by a speedy CDN.
Re: A fast, modern API for TV, Movies, Podcasts and more
#3I'm working on an API that doesn't suck that will represent TV, Movies, Podcasts, WebTV, and other forms of media. A stack-overflow inspired reputation system will reward community members to contribute translations, new shows, movies and corrections. Background workers interface with EPGs, other APIs and streams of data from other sources. An image proxy server means openmedia.io will do the heavy lifting delivering…
For movies only (I understand that you service does more than just movies, but for my application this is currently irrelevant), are there key differences (benefits and weaknesses) compared to TMDb : http://www.themoviedb.org/
Or just scraping imdb
Re: A fast, modern API for TV, Movies, Podcasts and more
#4I'm working on an API that doesn't suck that will represent TV, Movies, Podcasts, WebTV, and other forms of media. A stack-overflow inspired reputation system will reward community members to contribute translations, new shows, movies and corrections. Background workers interface with EPGs, other APIs and streams of data from other sources. An image proxy server means openmedia.io will do the heavy lifting delivering…
This looks really interesting for a project I'm working on. The license being used is obviously very open, but at the say time, does it effectively preclude proxying requests or caching returned results?
Basically, if I wanted to offer the data from this system as a data layer to my front-end, would I need to hit your server for every request?
Re: A fast, modern API for TV, Movies, Podcasts and more
#5@carbuncle - If TMDB's licence allows, I can absolutely imagine offering the webhooks, and changes stream and a Movie type backed by TMDB. It's something I'll have to take up with their moderators.
@theallan - It depends whether that would be a competing service under liberal interpretations of the law, when the legal chap has drawn up the API permission guidelines, I'll be sure to notify the mailing list. Under German law we have to be quite explicit about granting permission, but the beta list will be notified of the full terms of usage before the API opens. (My gut-feeling, no problem with using the data to back an app, that's sort-of what the data's for!)
Re: A fast, modern API for TV, Movies, Podcasts and more
#6Doesn't trakt.tv do the same thing?
Re: A fast, modern API for TV, Movies, Podcasts and more
#7@carbuncle - If TMDB's licence allows, I can absolutely imagine offering the webhooks, and changes stream and a Movie type backed by TMDB. It's something I'll have to take up with their moderators. @theallan - It depends whether that would be a competing service under liberal interpretations of the law, when the legal chap has drawn up the API permission guidelines, I'll be sure to notify the mailing list. Under Germ…
Super - I look forward to hearing more about it!
Re: A fast, modern API for TV, Movies, Podcasts and more
#8Doesn't trakt.tv do the same thing?
I believe trakt.tv is the kind of service that might benefit from a simplified back-end system if it were to use openmedia.io. They likely use thetvdb, or epguides or similar now, or may even have their own integrations with EPGs.
Similar services: * Web: trakt.tv, watched.it, watched.li, gomiso.com, getglue.com * Android: TV Series, TV Show Favs, Twee, DroidSeries, MyEpisodes
I don't think that trakt.tv is really competing on an API level, but the data from openmedia.io would make building and maintaining a TV and movie tracker trivial.
Re: A fast, modern API for TV, Movies, Podcasts and more
#9Doesn't trakt.tv do the same thing?
I believe trakt.tv is the kind of service that might benefit from a simplified back-end system if it were to use openmedia.io. They likely use thetvdb, or epguides or similar now, or may even have their own integrations with EPGs. Similar services: * Web: trakt.tv, watched.it, watched.li, gomiso.com, getglue.com * Android: TV Series, TV Show Favs, Twee, DroidSeries, MyEpisodes I don't think that trakt.tv is really co…
Yeah, they use TVDB as a source, definitely. I'm just having trouble seeing what your app does, mind explaining it a bit more?
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#10Stop using Raleway as a body font. Please.