Part 2: A simple script to pull information

What would be the best way to simply check if a particular title is available? Use the pathEvaluator to do a search query?

admin

https://unogs.com

@admin Yes thank you :) I mean pulling the information directly from Netflix like in the script you posted.

admin

The following JSON should do it:
$search='your search string'
$min='start of your search count, 0 typically'
$max='max results'
$at='your auth code discussed previously (may not be necessary)'

{"paths":[["search","$search",{"from":$min,"to":$max},["availability"]],["search","$search",{"from":$min,"to":$max},"boxarts","_342x192","webp"]],"authURL":"$at"}

Thank you! I included "titles" as well (after "$search") and it worked for me. The auth code wasn't necessary.

How do you get the information about WHEN titles will become available or expire?

admin

availabilityEndDateNear

["subtitles","audio","availability","availabilityEndDateNear"]

Now easy way to get when new titles are available that I know of...

spiffylogic

@admin When I use "availabilityEndDateNear" (for a title that I know is expiring soon) I get back something I don't understand:

u'availabilityEndDateNear': {u'$size': 16, u'$type': u'sentinel', u'size': 16}

What does this mean?

admin

@spiffylogic what title in what country?

spiffylogic

@admin That was "You Laugh But It's True" in Canada

admin

@spiffylogic It works fine for me, can you post the PATH JSON you are using?

spiffylogic

@admin Sorry it is actually working but I got lost in the sea of output. The data for that title indeed shows

u'availabilityEndDateNear': u'2017-10-05'

but for all other titles it has that sentinel blob (which is still curious to me...).

Thanks for your help and for this great forum!

admin

@spiffylogic Glad to hear it... https://jsonformatter.curiousconcept.com/ is your friend

@frankied said in Part 2: A simple script to pull information:

Requesting

When I try your code I get this response:
'''
{u'paths': [[u'shows'], [u'80113701'], [u'browse']],
u'value': {u'$size': 48,
u'80113701': {u'$size': 16, u'$type': u'sentinel', u'size': 16},
u'browse': {u'$size': 16, u'$type': u'sentinel', u'size': 16},
u'shows': {u'$size': 16, u'$type': u'sentinel', u'size': 16},
u'size': 48}}
'''

Do you guys know how I can get the titles actors, directors and creators?
Thanks in advance! :)

I'm trying to accomplish the same thing as this code sample in c#, I was able to get a working response in python but the rest of my project is in c#.

However when I use a HTTPWebRequest to get the response stream, the response looks like this:
"\u001f�\b\0\0\0\0\0\0\0ܖKo�F\fǿ�B�q�%�=�\u0015i\u000e)�&��T\u0004\u0006g�\u0013+Qv\u0017+��\u07fd#m��_M\u0011 \a�F��P\u007f�(��T�Ԟqu��k>\u0017C(i��^��\u0018�_m�ê�u߬��9hn3�ܔ\u0004��ݮ)'w��mL1�:��j��!�u&�\u0002\u001b��L�BP^��\u0018}d��LL9�(]&O�u\u0014Z9\u0017\u0010<\n\u001b2xͬ]\0��\u0010g2�Z��\u0010E��2uܽ.e��\u001d�@��\u0012XKgIHr |

(Shortened so not to overwhelm)

I'm at a loss as to why the response I'm getting in c# is a unicode mess but the python code gets a nice clean response.

Any ideas?

        string genres = "0,\"to\":1";
        string rmax = "5";
        string sbase = "[[\"newarrivals\",{\"from\":" + genres + "},{\"from\":0,\"to\":" + rmax + "},[\"title\",\"availability\"]],[\"newarrivals\",{\"from\":" + genres + "},{\"from\":0,\"to\":" + rmax + "},\"boxarts\",\"_342x192\",\"jpg\"]]";
        string data = "{\"paths\":" + sbase + ",\"authURL\":\"1516657903506.SW2aceZfllyxCd5V5TPHJdJiMxQ=\"}";

        byte[] byteArray = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(data);
        request.ContentLength = byteArray.Length;
        Stream dataStream = request.GetRequestStream();
        dataStream.Write(byteArray, 0, byteArray.Length);
        WebResponse response = request.GetResponse();
        dataStream = response.GetResponseStream();
        StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(dataStream);
        string responseFromServer = reader.ReadToEnd();

admin

unfortunately I have never played with C# so I can't be much help there...

@admin I've been trying to do a search call to pathevaluator, even copied exactly what is being sent on netflix's search page, but there must be some kind of sorting going on? For example when I search "shark" I'm getting little rascals at the top. Little rascals is also on the netflix page but down on around row 10.

Any idea if theres some relevancy value I need? Thanks in advance.

victorhupo

@admin I would like to download the boxart of this title "80101802" but in my language that is brazilian portuguese, I do not understand mto code but I tried it and I did not get it through your tutorial, it would have you help me or else add the function of being able to choose the parents that your site would take the image?

admin

@victorhupo what title is that? it doesn't look like it exists..