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      Guest @admin
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      @admin said in What? Netflix doesn't have an API!:

      There are ways to manipulate the API into thinking you are coming from a different place, but my source address always looks the same.

      Now I understand, thank you.

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        Guest @admin
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        Instead of asking users to do it, you could just rent a server. There are very cheap web hosting solutions. Personally I got a server for 10 euros with Ubuntu Desktop (I connect with X2Go and use Wine to run Windows programs). The bandwidth is certainly better than what you currently have, so you would have to slow down the scrapping requests.

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          Guest @admin
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          @admin said in What? Netflix doesn't have an API!:

          In order to scrape all 240 countries, I needed to parse about 7 countries at once, which was tripping their systems.

          With a server (or two) you could scrap the remaining countries, even if it's only every 2 days.

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            Guest @Guest
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            If you're worried your server will be under-used (of course it'll be), you could scrap Amazon Prime Video too ;-)

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              Guest @admin
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              Do you scrap daily all the informations about a movie? There are many parts like the plot or the cast that you could easily scrap only once in a while.

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                admin @Guest
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                I pull only regional information daily about every title so I can validate whether it still exists in a particular country.

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                  jetap
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                  Just out of curiosity from which API/device are you looking at the payload? Are you using just the web browser (Chrome)? Have you look to see if the NF API from an iOS/Apple TV/Android devices is better?
                  Just curious?

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                    admin @jetap
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                    @jetap I'm not sure what you mean by better... but I am looking at it from Chrome.

                    I have used looked at the IOS stream but its much more difficult as I have to actually have to fake the certificate which is a PITA.

                    Chrome is easy b/c I can just inspect it.

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                      FrankieD @jetap
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                      @jetap Windows Netflix apps use the old-style, formerly-public API using the GET method. Windows 8.1, for example:
                      hxxps://api-global.netflix.com/win/2.20/get?method=get&PATH=&format=json&progressive=true&languages=en-EN

                      Windows 10 uses a different API version
                      hxxps://api-global.netflix.com/win/uwa/6.10?falcor_server=0.1.0&materialize=true&winx_lang=en-GB&method=get&path=PATH
                      As far as I can gather, any valid authentication cookie is accepted (doesn't have to be from the Windows app).

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                        Guest
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                        @admin said in What? Netflix doesn't have an API!:

                        There are ways to manipulate the API into thinking you are coming from a different place,

                        What's the parameter to add to the API to set the country?
                        For the traffic ban I can suggest to use some proxies: if the main IP fails, you can switch to the proxy for the next hours/days until the ban is off.

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                          admin @Guest
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                          Stay tuned... all in good time

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                            Guest @admin
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                            @admin Any news on this topic?

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                              admin @Guest
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                              We have had some push back from the community regarding how much we are sharing regarding the API. At this time we are not planning on publishing any additional information, but his may change in the future.

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