Addressing recent issues with the website and API
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bummer :(
I'm sure you selected the remaining supported countries by their usage statistics,
but i am surprised Iceland (population 300k) was more used than Lithuania (whos data was accurate also for Estonia & i guess Latvia - 6million all together) -
Can you distribute the scraping between many machines to make it less easy to detect? I think you could get help from users to do this. I'd be happy to volunteer to run a unogs client to scrape Israeli Netflix, and I'm sure many others would too.
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@Oren its a good idea and something I have been thinking about... the real issue is trust... by allowing other folks to run the tools they will basically have write access to the database meaning a bad actor could torpedo the entire endeavour
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I believe you are already scraping using "many machines," if you use virtual private servers already. The only benefit in that would be to distribute the scraping between many users - and not machines. The biggest downside with that would be sharing the code between the users. They could then start their competing services using your codebase.
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Yeah the challenge is that right now scraping 2 different countries at the same time with the same ID causes them to block that account for 2 days...
As I'm in the UK it is difficult for me to get more than a couple of accounts outside the EU which we need to accurately pull data from inside Europe.
I guess what we could do is open source the script and then have people submit the output for processing, just difficult to know the right approach...
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Couldn't you register more accounts using a VPN? Netflix only blocks watching content, not accessing their site. What I'm afraid is that open-sourcing the script would allow Netflix to inspect its internals and build stronger barriers.
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Does anybody know an alternative way of keeping up to date with Netflix? I'm Polish and checked this website a few times a week, but it seems I'm SOL now.
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we are adding Poland back in the next couple days...
Poland
Lithuania
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Noooo! You were my source of information for Mexico.
Hope it can come back soon -
we need to see how the pulls go... we will add countries as and when we can
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I appreciate that you are having issues and I hope you get them resolved soon. I do wonder though ... Canada is on the list of supported countries, and there are 6 new videos added this week under Canada, however there are NO expiring videos for Canada. While I am sure this is possible, it does seem very unlikely. Which makes me think something's gone amuck with the Canada database. Possibly others? Hopefully you can have a look and get it fixed quick. Thanks!
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If you run across a title in Canada that should be expiring and we are not showing it, please let us know so we can hunt down why its not showing up.
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Thanks for considering adding Lithuania to the list!
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that why its not belgium, hope will resolve soon, dont forget us ^^
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Just building on the earlier mention of Canada expiring not showing up, a search for expiring in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Hong Kong, India, Japan, United States and United Kingdom comes up with 0 results. So there is certainly something missing.
These are some films ending soon in Australia which aren't displaying in a search:
http://unogs.com/title/81094666 (13 May)
http://unogs.com/title/80226333 (13 May)
http://unogs.com/title/80098473 (14 May)
http://unogs.com/title/70113001 (14 May)
http://unogs.com/title/80128688 (14 May)Hope that helps.
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In case it's useful, the first and last of the films in the above post (Killer Cove and Smash) are also set to expire in Canada (though Canada still shows 0 expiring as mentioned earlier).