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Show HN: The TV API - Free Comprehensive TV API and Episode Guide
- jeremyriney 14y agoBTW, if anyone here wants an API key, use this invite code: hn2013
- macleanjr 14y agoWhat benefits does this service have over the API provided by TheTVDB, which is your stated data source? I haven't interacted with theirs extensively, but it appears to offer the same functionality.
- jeremyriney 14y agoIt is mashed up with Guidebox to provide information on where an episode can be watched online. In addition, it has a better selection of TV artwork and episode thumbnails. I envisioned this as "in addition to" TheTVDB to help round out their selection and provide additional API calls.
- pravka 14y agoNice work, really like this. Question, though -- any particular reason you're not serving the list of actors in an array?
- jeremyriney 14y agoHadn't put much thought into the Actor field. Is there a big need for this? Do people care much about finding (for example) all shows for a particular actor? I find this interesting for movies, but not much for TV. Thoughts?
- pravka 14y agoSeparating functionality between the two doesn't really make sense to me -- consider it akin to an actor's filmography on IMDb, which lists pretty much everything that they've had a role in. I, for one, would find it fairly useful.