Show HN: API to check where a TV show or movie is available

#1

Post by utelly » Mon, Oct 30, 2017, 10:22 AM UTC

Here is an API we created to check availability of a TV show or Movie across multiple services

https://market.mashape.com/utelly/utelly

On Demand Services:

- uk

    Netflix

    Amazon Prime

    Amazon Instant

    iTunes

    Now TV

    TalkTalk TV Store

    Google Play

    BBC iPlayer

    All 4

    My 5

    Rakuten TV

    ITV Hub

 - us

    Netflix

    Amazon Prime

    Amazon Instant

    iTunes

Live TV:

- uk

    All channels - BBC 1, BBC 2, ITV 1, Channel 4, Sky 1...

More countries/services are being added. Let us know which ones you want !

Re: Show HN: API to check where a TV show or movie is available

#2

Post by ripexz » Mon, Oct 30, 2017, 1:31 PM UTC

Clickable link: https://market.mashape.com/utelly/utelly

Also this should probably be in Show HN rather than Ask :)

Re: Show HN: API to check where a TV show or movie is available

#3

Post by ng-user » Mon, Oct 30, 2017, 1:45 PM UTC

Does this separate the region specific content appropriately?

ie. US Netflix has Clerks 2 but Canadian Netflix does not.

Re: Show HN: API to check where a TV show or movie is available

#4

Post by virtuexru » Mon, Oct 30, 2017, 2:06 PM UTC

Good lord I've been wanting/waiting for someone to do this and you've finally delivered! Huge kudos. I'll definitely be using & keeping an eye on this.

I'd much rather find what I want to watch on a legitimate streaming service rather than using other ways...

Re: Show HN: API to check where a TV show or movie is available

#5

Post by msravi » Mon, Oct 30, 2017, 2:14 PM UTC

Useful! Can you set a region so it checks only that region?

Also, can you add Hotstar (India)?

Re: Show HN: API to check where a TV show or movie is available

#6

Post by StevenRayOrr » Mon, Oct 30, 2017, 2:14 PM UTC

ng-user wrote: post #3

Does this separate the region specific content appropriately? ie. US Netflix has Clerks 2 but Canadian Netflix does not.

It only appears to pull data for UK/US services right now. So while it does seem to separate out the content according to region, us Canadians will have to make due without.

Re: Show HN: API to check where a TV show or movie is available

#7

Post by mox1 » Mon, Oct 30, 2017, 2:25 PM UTC

Adding Hulu to the U.S. would be nice.

Re: Show HN: API to check where a TV show or movie is available

#8

Post by photonios » Mon, Oct 30, 2017, 2:28 PM UTC

This is great! If you could make it so that I could specify the region, so that it would only look on, for example the Dutch or Romanian Netflix (the two countries where I often reside).

Any plans on open sourcing the code?

Re: Show HN: API to check where a TV show or movie is available

#9

Post by jgalt212 » Mon, Oct 30, 2017, 2:28 PM UTC

Seems very useful, right now to do this, I need to run a search on Roku. And not all my TVs have Roku.

Re: Show HN: API to check where a TV show or movie is available

#10

Post by pankajleon » Mon, Oct 30, 2017, 2:43 PM UTC

India.