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Streaming Guide
posted by plauer62STAFFMOD on May 11, 2020 at 9:00 PM
I'm trying to build a streaming TV guide that would show where all movies and TV shows are viewable, something similar to reelgood.com or justwatch.com. It would seem like TMDb would have the data to enable me to build a streaming guide like that, but I wonder if you could connect me with another user/developer who has already done it, with whom I could partner. Thanks
Reply by bobbyjoe
on May 13, 2020 at 4:10 PM
Yeah, I wanted to get the networks where movies and tv shows are playing too, but tmdb says that their contract with justwatch doesn't allow then to make it a function of the api. I have noticed that the api's discover feature allows network ids to be passed as a parameter, and you can download a list of networks from the daily file exports, but this is only available to search for tv shows, not movies.
Reply by Travis Bell
on November 20, 2020 at 12:04 PM
Hi guys,
We've pushed a new method called watch providers, which can be found at the following two paths:
I detailed some of the details on the Trello ticket here. It's important to note this is not going to return full deep links, but rather, it's just enough information to display what's available where. You can link to TMDb's /watch pages if you want to provide full deep links. We may do more with JustWatch on the API in the future, but for now this is what we've decided on.