{"id":517,"date":"2007-04-04T17:44:07","date_gmt":"2007-04-04T22:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/2007\/04\/04\/netflix-wishlist-imdb-crosslinks\/"},"modified":"2007-04-05T08:55:35","modified_gmt":"2007-04-05T13:55:35","slug":"netflix-wishlist-imdb-crosslinks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/2007\/04\/04\/netflix-wishlist-imdb-crosslinks","title":{"rendered":"Netflix Wishlist: IMDB Crosslinks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Add to my <a href=\"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/2006\/11\/22\/netflix_should_have_standing_orders\/\">Netflix Wishlist<\/a> (that is, the list of features I wish Netflix had, not the list of movies I wish I had): links from <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\">IMDB<\/a> entries to the respective Netflix page (or, better yet, &#8220;add to Netflix queue&#8221; directly from IMDB). Links back to IMDB from Netflix would also be nice.<\/p>\n<p>This seems like something that would be relatively easy to do with a Mozilla plugin. In general, Netflix would be a prime candidate for a developer\/hobbyist ecology similar to  that which has grown up around <a href=\"http:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/\">Amazon&#8217;s API<\/a>.  The only examples I could find were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slimdevices.com\/downloads\/plugins\/NetFlix.pm\">this Perl module<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sixapart.com\/pronet\/plugins\/plugin\/netflix.html\">this Moveable-Type plugin<\/a>. More development along these lines could be a key advantage for Netflix to preserve its now incumbent position in the market. (Does anyone have any local video stores left? Ours closed down about a year ago.)<\/p>\n<p>Update: James points to <a href=\"http:\/\/userscripts.org\/scripts\/search?q=netflix\">an impressive list of Greasemonkey\/Netflix scripts<\/a>, two of which seem to do the job: <a href=\"http:\/\/userscripts.org\/scripts\/show\/573\">Netflix links in IMDB<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/userscripts.org\/scripts\/show\/965\">IMDB links in Netflix<\/a>. Another featuer I&#8217;ve been looking for: <a href=\"http:\/\/userscripts.org\/scripts\/show\/8118\">Netflix Ratings Granulizer<\/a> (allows partial stars in ratings). Thanks, Lazyweb! (Note that these sorts of screen-scraping hacks  inevitably break when the content provider modifies its presentation; an open API would obviously be preferable).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Add to my Netflix Wishlist (that is, the list of features I wish Netflix had, not the list of movies I wish I had): links from IMDB entries to the respective Netflix page (or, better yet, &#8220;add to Netflix queue&#8221; directly from IMDB). Links back to IMDB from Netflix would also be nice. This seems [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,12,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}