Hi @saulmarti_, before answering, I’d like to clarify what you’re referring to when you say “providers”. Are you referring to watch providers? If so, no, the changes are not reflected in the change logs.

Hi @travisbell,

Do you plan to add a watch provider changes endpoint to the API that returns the ids of the movies/tv shows, for which the streaming availability has changed?

In combination with a watch_regions filter to only return the changes for the specified countries this could drastically reduce the api calls needed as you could cache the availability for certain items (for example movies on a user’s watchlist) and only update it if it has changed.

Hey @Seriesort,

Do you plan to add a watch provider changes endpoint to the API that returns the ids of the movies/tv shows, for which the streaming availability has changed?

Probably not, no. The amount of streaming data we track is pretty intense (over 7.9 million items) and adding individual item tracking for these would just completely blow out the change logs.

In combination with a watch_regions filter to only return the changes for the specified countries this could drastically reduce the api calls needed as you could cache the availability for certain items (for example movies on a user’s watchlist) and only update it if it has changed.

Perhaps there's a use case for an "account states" like method; something to to help return a user account's "streaming states" for their account lists.

Probably not, no. The amount of streaming data we track is pretty intense (over 7.9 million items) and adding individual item tracking for these would just completely blow out the change logs.

Ok, I understand. Just out of interest: Does JustWatch provide you with information on which items have changed or do you just check the availability for each individual item on a regular basis?

Perhaps there's a use case for an "account states" like method; something to to help return a user account's "streaming states" for their account lists.

I don't think it would help me, but for others this could surely be helpful.

Another measure to reduce the amount of data that has to be fetched from the API for my use case is adding a watch_regions filter (that takes a comma seperated list of countries and then only returns the data for the specified countries) to the /movie/{movie_id}/watch/providers and /tv/{tv_id}/watch/providers endpoints. I think other users have already asked for that, but I couldn't find a ticket on Trello... Is it possible to add such a filter in the near future?

@Seriesort said:

Ok, I understand. Just out of interest: Does JustWatch provide you with information on which items have changed or do you just check the availability for each individual item on a regular basis?

We only get a full dump, no daily diffs. We have to process the entire dataset every day.

Another measure to reduce the amount of data that has to be fetched from the API for my use case is adding a watch_regions filter (that takes a comma seperated list of countries and then only returns the data for the specified countries) to the /movie/{movie_id}/watch/providers and /tv/{tv_id}/watch/providers endpoints. I think other users have already asked for that, but I couldn't find a ticket on Trello... Is it possible to add such a filter in the near future?

I'm thinking about it, yes.

Hey just wondering if there's an update on this — is there still no plan to add watch providers to the change logs?

Hi @davidlipson,

There are still no plans to track those changes at this time.

Hi @travisbell

@travisbell said:

@Seriesort said:

Ok, I understand. Just out of interest: Does JustWatch provide you with information on which items have changed or do you just check the availability for each individual item on a regular basis?

We only get a full dump, no daily diffs. We have to process the entire dataset every day.

When do you start processing the dataset and at what time is this process finished?