Hacking Netflix - Netflix APIs

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Presented in the Lightning Rounds at the 2008 Ajax Experience. Rapid tour through the Netflix API and some examples of using the APIs in the first Netflix Hack Day. See http://developer.netflix.com for more information.

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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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and some innovated via scraping!
Media Center Player

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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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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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