Saepirist

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   by Saepirist 2y ago

   Hey, congrats on the launch. I noticed that you are using my API ( https://www.movieofthenight.com/about/api ) to get the streaming availability data, but I couldn't see any attribution regards to it. Can you plea
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   by Saepirist 3y ago

   Hi all, I wrote a Go tutorial on Medium about how to write a simple movie recommender based on users’ subscribed streaming services. It goes over how to search for the movies on the streaming services and how you can provide deep links to t
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   Writing a Netflix/Disney+ Movie Recommender with Go(medium.com)

   1 points by Saepirist 3y ago|1 comments
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   by Saepirist 5y ago

   Hi, there's also a 'country' parameter to filter country availability. i.e. if you set 'service' as 'netflix' and 'country' as 'us', it will only return shows available in Netflix US.
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   by Saepirist 5y ago

   Hey, do you wanna have a regular dataset export or a one time export? You can message me over RapidAPI or LinkedIn to discuss. My linkedin profile is in About page of the link I posted. In RapidAPI page of the API, there's an about sec
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   by Saepirist 5y ago

   Thank you, really cool the hear that!
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   by Saepirist 5y ago

   Thank you! I'm making profit off the API.
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   by Saepirist 5y ago

   Thank you! Nice to see the compare page is being useful to people.
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   by Saepirist 5y ago

   Hey, those are some valid concerns. Scrapping is still a gray legal area but recently there were some court decisions in favor of scrapping already publicly available data. The API can be used for commercial projects, it's stated in Te
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    by Saepirist 5y ago

    Thank you!
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    by Saepirist 5y ago

    Hey, it's nice to see you people under this post. Regarding your suspicion, surely this is not the first time someone making a smaller-scale, more humble and cheaper version of a future that some established companies already have. The
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    by Saepirist 5y ago

    Haha, sorry. But actually it's pretty much it. You need VPNs to check catalogs in different countries, which is tricky for some services (like Netflix) as they try to block VPNs. So you gotta always have a large pool. Catalogs of servi
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    by Saepirist 5y ago

    Currently it only shows free (included with Prime) shows on Prime Video. I just checked it and Mad Men is only available for buying or via AMC+ channel subscription.
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    by Saepirist 5y ago

    API doesn't offer that feature out of the box but I believe you can pull off that with a bit of extra coding on top.
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    by Saepirist 5y ago

    I do have my algorithm to match them with IMDb/TMDb ids, though of course it's not always 100% correct.
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    by Saepirist 5y ago

    Depends on the service any of these might be needed.
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    by Saepirist 5y ago

    Thank you! Yes, I'm planning to add more details like these.
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    by Saepirist 5y ago

    Thanks for the suggestion, planning to add more details about these kinds of things.
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    by Saepirist 5y ago

    Thank you!
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    by Saepirist 5y ago

    The data is updated daily, so new/removed movies shouldn't be a problem.
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    by Saepirist 5y ago

    Thanks for letting me know! Gonna check it.
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    by Saepirist 5y ago

    You can have that by signing in. Once you have couple of stuff in your favorites list, in Feed page a new row called "Movies for You" and "Series for You" will appear. Though right now it's updated every 24 so it mi
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    by Saepirist 5y ago

    Hey, just checked, in Germany it's available to buy on Apple TV but not it's not part of Apple TV+. Currently the API only supports Apple TV+.
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    by Saepirist 5y ago

    It's available on the API, you can use /get/ultra endpoint to see in which countries a show is available. Planning to add that feature to the web app as well.
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    by Saepirist 5y ago

    Thank you! There's already a recommendation engine I've made actually, it's the home page of the link I put: https://www.movieofthenight.com/
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    by Saepirist 5y ago

    Thanks for letting me know! Gonna check how it went wrong.
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    by Saepirist 5y ago

    Thank you! The data is updated daily by automated tools that checks the services regularly.
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    by Saepirist 5y ago

    It's already supported! Different plans have different order by fields supported but if you have Ultra or Mega plan you can order by the following fields: original_title, year, imdb_vote_count, imdb_rating
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    by Saepirist 5y ago

    Hi people, I've been working on this API for sometime now. Thought I'd share it here too. This API allows you to query what's available on 20 streaming services (including Netflix, Prime, HBO Max, Disney+, Hulu) across 60 cou
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    Show HN: API to query catalogs of 20 streaming services across 60 countries(movieofthenight.com)

    364 points by Saepirist 5y ago|95 comments