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Is there a way to know when a movie or tv show is available on streaming?
posted by Alejandro SenaSTAFFMOD on November 22, 2023 at 1:21 PM
Hi all!
My users can save a movie or tv show to be notified when available on streaming. Right now what I'm doing is go over each movie and tv show saved and check if there is a new watch_provider, but that's a lot of work for the API.
Isn't there a way to get movies and tv shows watch providers changes? Or maybe another way to do the same without having to check on every title every day.
Thanks!
Reply by robbie3999
on November 22, 2023 at 10:30 PM
Hi @sliverale, there is no watch provider change endpoint. There is a new page on the JustWatch website, but I guess we don't get that information.
If you have a lot of users and titles and are only tracking a few providers it might be more efficient to download all the information for each provider, but other than that I don't think you have any options.
Reply by Alejandro Sena
on November 23, 2023 at 9:29 AM
Thanks. I think I'm going to check one by one util there are too many and then use https://developer.themoviedb.org/reference/changes-movie-list to check every morning if there are changes in providers, but only when the amount of tv shows and movies to check outpaces the number of daily updates that that list returns.
Reply by Travis Bell
on November 23, 2023 at 11:12 AM
We don't track the JustWatch changes through the change system, so that will not help you @sliverale.
There isn't really a way to get what you want, we simply don't track these changes on TMDB.
Reply by Alejandro Sena
on November 23, 2023 at 11:32 AM
No need for TMDB to track JustWatch changes. If I know that a movie didn't have any provider and now it does, I can track that it changed and let my users know where they can watch it now.