Hi @SmobFifty,

This is an interesting idea. I don't recall having anyone ask about something like this before.

TMDb could send me an email notification when a TV show in my watchlist is finished / ended / cancelled.

This is an interesting idea all on its own merit. I've separately been thinking of different events that users could get emailed about, so this seems like this is a perfectly valid one. I have a ticket to think about this kind of stuff here. You can vote for it if you're so inclined.

TMDb could add webhooks in their API. One webhook could be "call this URL when the status of a TV show or movie changed". Like the webhooks provided by GitHub for example.

This is definitely one option. If I was to build a web hook system, what other hooks can you think of that would be useful?

I could develop a web app that call your REST API once per night or week for every TV show in my watchlist and check the status. If the status changes my app could notify me about that. But then I would have to maintain my own persistent storage (like a database for example) that holds the id of the TV show and the current status to compare that with the response of your API

Ya, this is not a lot better than any current method. I'm leaning towards option #1.

Thanks. I voted for that in your Trello board.

Regarding the webhooks you could some for "when a TV has ended / canceled" or "the entity that you already edited was updated by another person" or "the status changed to XYZ of the item that's on your watchlist" or "there is a new movie from director X" or "there is a new season of TV show X that you have on your watchlist" or something like that. You can add this as email notification and as a webhook if you want.

Unfortunately TMDb is not open source so I can't help you with that.

Hi @SmobFifty,

Ok, cool. Thanks for the extra insight. I've created a second ticket about webhooks here.

Thanks!

Hello,

I voted for the two mentioned Trello tickets

For movie email / notification when a movie is released, available in Cinema, streaming or blu-ray, with fields ?

• Status: in production, Released...
• Release date type: Premiere, theatrical, digital, physical (per country ?)

Hook on persons when they are part of a new TV show / movie ?

Kind of favourit list that email/notify when new content is available for person, production company or even movie genre ?

Thoses notifications available threw api request would be nice.

Just a bunch of ideas.

Happy 2022 Best,