> this can be solved by an intern in an afternoon and it's mind boggling why it hasn't been done yet. This is such an ignorant thing to say. Do you really thin

> this can be solved by an intern in an afternoon and it's mind boggling why it hasn't been done yet. This is such an ignorant thing to say. Do you really think it's not done yet because it's so hard to do? It doesn't make any sense business wise for them that's why the public API they had got shut down for everyone except a selected few. Making everything easily accessible and comparable by making it easy to get the data out is most likely not what they are focusing on. You also don't need an API for their deep urls as you can just build them yourself: nflx://www.netflix.com/watch/<Netflix ID>. This opens the app and plays the video.