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  1. If you need help with specific Netflix APIs, make sure to take a look at the Documentation tab if you haven't already.

  2. Mike1 year ago

    I have a question regarding the catalog/titles?term=something API. When I do a query on "the office" I get results for each season of The Office (i.e. "The Office: Season 4", etc), except for Season 1. I *do* get one item that shows up as "The Office" (without the ": Season 1"). The same thing for the original British version -- I see "The Office: Series 2" but not "The Office: Series 1".

    When I run this same search on www.netflix.com, I get the results I expect (i.e. Season 1 shows up and is clearly identified as such).

    I would like the API results to match what I see on www.netflix.com -- am I missing something?

  3. Michael Hart1 year ago

    The series result you are seeing is canceling out the first season in the series. We'll make a fix for that, removing the series and adding season 1, and the results will then be consistent with the site.

  4. Robert Burdick9 months ago

    Question about instant queue retreival. When I make changes to the instant queue in one of my test accounts via the desktop browser, the changes are saved in the test account. However when I then retreive the instant queue for this account via my mobile application, I always get the old queue. This happens even after I clear the mobile cache, restart the app, etc.

  5. Michael Hart9 months ago

    This is a known issue we'll be addressing in the next few months. Fortunately, a real user would rarely encounter it: http://developer.netflix.com/forum/read/28457.

  6. MCWHAMMER8 months ago

    I've been trying for two days now to link my Netflix account on Jinni.com (In Beta, restricted to beta members...). I've let them know this already, but they have said that some people have been able to link accounts successfully and some have not.

    I just wanted to let you know so that you could look into the problem, because I can't find a way around it. It took me a while to link my Feedflix account to my Netflix account when it first began using the API as well, but this problem seems like it could be worse, and I figured that you've probably dealt with Jinni directly, so you can offer some advice.

    Thanks Michael.

  7. JR Conlin8 months ago

    Hmm. That I'm aware of, Jinni hasn't asked us for any help, so I'm not sure what they're doing. I do see that they're asking for your username and password (boo, bad anti-pattern! No cookie!), so I have no idea what they're doing behind the scenes. For what it's worth, I'm hitting the same error linking up my account, and I had no problem with any other Netflix app, including Feedflix.

    Thanks for letting us know, but again, we don't have a heck of a lot more info than you do about what they're doing.

    We'll try to contact them and figure out what's going on here.

  8. MCWHAMMER8 months ago

    Thanks JR. I noticed that even if I give them the wrong password for my Netflix account, it takes me straight to the Netflix "DO YOU AUTHORIZE?" widget, with my name on it. So, obviously, the process fails right after I click "Yes". No matter if I use the correct password or not.

    I figured if anyone could help them get it working, you guys could :)

    It's a great site so far, I've just had problems with this mostly. I just tried again today, no change yet.

  9. Michael Hart8 months ago

    I've let Jinni know we're here to help. Need to understand what they are doing on their side: http://blog.jinni.com/2009/03/get-a-smart-netflix-account/#comment-4204.

  10. MCWHAMMER8 months ago

    Thanks Michael... hope they take your advice. I will keep checking back here and at Jinni to see the progress.

  11. MCWHAMMER8 months ago

    After days of trying, I was finally able to get my account linked. I noticed - before it went through - that under "My Account" on Netflix.com, it said I was linked up with Jinni, but even though it technically was, the process always failed on Jinni before it could export my ratings/reviews to their site.

    I have no idea what was causing the mess, but at least it's over with now. It was very aggravating, to say the least. It's really cool to have all of my ratings and reviews on Jinni now.

    Of course now I wish that the 5 star rating on Netflix could be transferred to IMDB, and that all of my ratings were exported to that site. If they didn't have a ten-star rating system, that could certainly happen, but until then, if I really care to, I have to rate imdb separately, and try to figure out what a 2 star rating should equal out to on IMDB.