hacking netflix
lightning tour of the netflix public api
Bill Scott
Director, UI Engineering
Ajax Experience ‘08
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the team*
*These guys get the credit (I am just the one talking about it :-)
clockwise from top-right: Anuradha Sonvane, Priya Poolavari, JR Conlin, Adam Durfee, Michael Hart, Team, Jeff Marsh, Michael Cohen
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hard to hack with just rss
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still some innovated
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and some innovated via scraping!
Media Center Player
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very hard to maintain
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public api
widgets
rest
feeds
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widgets
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rest api
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rest api
title search. title details. queue mgmt.
ratings. title states. autocomplete search.
synopsis. directors. cast. formats. title
search. basic recommendations. people
search. people details. filmography.
member ratings. member history. member
reviews. previews. member queues.
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api.netflix.com
catalog users
titles people user
rental recom-
title autocomplete index person queues title_states ratings
history mendations
filmography title
synopsis disc instant at_home
formats
awards available available received actual
cast
saved saved watched predicted
directors
screen
formats
languages
& audio
similars
previews
seasons
episodes
web page
official web
page
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api.netflix.com
catalog users
titles people user
rental recom-
title autocomplete index person queues title_states ratings
history mendations
filmography title
synopsis disc instant at_home
formats
awards available available received actual
cast
saved saved watched predicted
directors
screen
formats
languages
& audio
similars
previews
seasons
episodes
web page
official web
page
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api.netflix.com
catalog users
titles people user
rental recom-
title autocomplete index person queues title_states ratings
history mendations
filmography title
synopsis disc instant at_home
formats
awards available available received actual
cast
saved saved watched predicted
directors
screen
formats
languages
& audio
similars
previews
seasons
episodes
web page
official web
page
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feeds
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feeds
personalized. more secure. recent dvd
adds. recent instant watch adds. instant
queue. recent ratings. movies at home.
recommendations. move reviews.
public feeds. top 100. new releases.
new instant watch. last weeks top
instant. last 3 months top instant. top
25 in 20 genres.
available via rest api.
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standards
rest. rss. atom. xml. json. oauth. javascript.
amg movie ids. tms (TV) ids.
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hack day Q3’08
(exercising the apis)
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Degrees of
Separation
Credit: Gib Biddle, Juliana Diaz, Brian Cox
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Chat with
Netflix Bot
Credit: Sudhir Tonse
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Movie filtering,
finding on a 3D wall
Credit: Navin Prasad, Chris Smith, Steven Dreyer
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Mood based
recommendations
Credit: Todd Yellin, Kim Trott, Evers Ding, Shelby LaBadie
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Bollywood Movie
Finding for Instant
Watch
[ie8 accelerator]
Credit:
Priya Poolavari, Anu Sonvane
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Suggestions
from other member
movie lists
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Blackberry app iPhone native app
for adding movies to for managing instant
Queue playlist
Credit: Max Spivak; Adrian Cockcroft, Jian Wu
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IE8 Netflix
Accelerator
Credit: Bill Scott
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http://developer.netflix.com
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