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Show HN: API to check where a TV show or movie is available
Here is an API we created to check availability of a TV show or Movie across multiple services
https://market.mashape.com/utelly/utelly 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 !
- ripexz 9y agoClickable link: https://market.mashape.com/utelly/utelly https://market.mashape.com/utelly/utelly Also this should probably be in Show HN rather than Ask :)
- utelly 9y agoWill do thanks !
- ng-user 9y agoDoes this separate the region specific content appropriately? ie. US Netflix has Clerks 2 but Canadian Netflix does not.
- StevenRayOrr 9y agoIt 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.
- deleted 9y ago[deleted]
- utelly 9y agoContent is tagged per region, but we only support uk and us at the moment. We will add Canada as soon as possible
- ng-user 9y agoThanks!
- virtuexru 9y agoGood 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...
- utelly 9y agoGlad to be useful! let me know if you have any comments/suggestions regarding the API
- msravi 9y agoUseful! Can you set a region so it checks only that region? Also, can you add Hotstar (India)?
- utelly 9y agoWe will add India and Hotstar very soon !
- mox1 9y agoAdding Hulu to the U.S. would be nice.
- utelly 9y agoThank you, we will add Hulu in the us data
- photonios 9y agoThis 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?
- utelly 9y agoWe support regions but currently support uk and us, we are looking at adding more regions ASAP
- jgalt212 9y agoSeems very useful, right now to do this, I need to run a search on Roku. And not all my TVs have Roku.
- utelly 9y agoGlad to be useful! let me know if you have any comments/suggestions regarding the API
- pankajleon 9y agoIndia.
- utelly 9y agowill be added
- rory096 9y agoHow do you source the data? Does it keep current with catalog changes?
- grzm 9y agoIf it meets the guidelines, this is likely better submitted as a Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
- sambe 9y agoI'm using JustWatch (https://www.justwatch.com/ https://www.justwatch.com/) for manual searches (there seem to be Python packages offering an API but not sure how legitimate they are).
- utelly 9y agoSome shows are not listed in JustWatch, not sure why.
- amiga-workbench 9y agoreturn 'Pirate Bay';
- utelly 9y agoGenius
- megiddo 9y agoUS: Hulu, HBO Now, Google Play
- ajaxguy 9y agoThis post should be modified to Show HN, so it would be more clear.
- utelly 9y agoSorry about this, I didn't know about show HN... I posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15585971 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15585971
- utelly 9y agoI clicked "Hide", I hope thats enough to deal with duplication
- grzm 9y agoHide only hides it from you. If you're still able to, you should be able to edit the post to remove the description and add the URL to point to your site. If you're no longer able to edit the submission, please contact the mods to help you to figure it out.
- rudedogg 9y agoWill the API remain free?
- utelly 9y agoYes, it should stay free :)
- johnsmithwien 9y agoGreat API. May I ask what is the full URL for GET /lookup?
- cyberphonze 9y agoAny connection to http://www.utelly.com/ http://www.utelly.com/?
- cyberphonze 9y agoI may have answered my own question by looking at the matching logos
- gt_ 9y agoand OP’s username
- bg0 9y agoFun Fact, not as robust but the iOS TV app does this also
- jarommcdonald 9y agoNoticed in the API results that you have images from TMDB ... does this mean you link your data to TMDB ids? If you could expose an endpoint to search by TMDB id the utility of this would go up exponentially!
- deleted 9y ago[deleted]
- draz 9y agoWhat license does it carry?
- zeronight 9y agoThis is great. I would suggest giving shows an ID though. Looking at the docs, it looks like I have to search every time and just hope the show is still returned in the search and the results are in the same order every query. something like a /show/{id} or similar.
- twbarber 9y agoDo you have season and episode list support, or plan on adding it?