The API Terms of Service don't allow an application to capture a subscriber's user name and password, which is required to scrape user data from the site. While we do expose ratings via the API, we do recognized that there isn't a good way to grab a subscriber's full rating history. We're working on the technical and legal details to allow developers to access this info without running afoul of our terms of service nor enabling a unsatisfactory user experience.
Thanks for the question, Chris. As we said in our email, at <a href="http://www.jinni.com">Jinni</a> we're working with Netflix to initiate opening ratings history via their API. We believe in people's right to use their ratings as they choose, as is common practice with UGC on the web. Here’s an interesting take in a <a href="http://www.zatznotfunny.com/2009-06/netflix-forces-jinni-to-disable-ratings/">blog post by Davis Freeberg</a>.
To put this conversation in context, I’d like to add that the Netflix API is a valuable service for developers and of great importance for sites like Jinni. On a personal note, the API team has been consistently prompt and very helpful in responding to us.
I'd love to see developers have access to a subscriber's entire rating history - since the Netflix site provides this, there's apparently no technical hurdles to retrieving this info from the Netflix database. Looking forward to the day when my rating history can be manipulated in other ways than what Netflix originally envisioned.
I received an email from Jinni saying that Netflix demanded they stop importing user ratings from their API. Anyone know what is going on here?
Thanks.
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Michael Hart – 3 years ago
The API Terms of Service don't allow an application to capture a subscriber's user name and password, which is required to scrape user data from the site. While we do expose ratings via the API, we do recognized that there isn't a good way to grab a subscriber's full rating history. We're working on the technical and legal details to allow developers to access this info without running afoul of our terms of service nor enabling a unsatisfactory user experience.
Izik – 3 years ago
Thanks for the question, Chris. As we said in our email, at <a href="http://www.jinni.com">Jinni</a> we're working with Netflix to initiate opening ratings history via their API. We believe in people's right to use their ratings as they choose, as is common practice with UGC on the web. Here’s an interesting take in a <a href="http://www.zatznotfunny.com/2009-06/netflix-forces-jinni-to-disable-ratings/">blog post by Davis Freeberg</a>.
Izik – 3 years ago
To put this conversation in context, I’d like to add that the Netflix API is a valuable service for developers and of great importance for sites like Jinni. On a personal note, the API team has been consistently prompt and very helpful in responding to us.
Poseidon – 3 years ago
I'd love to see developers have access to a subscriber's entire rating history - since the Netflix site provides this, there's apparently no technical hurdles to retrieving this info from the Netflix database. Looking forward to the day when my rating history can be manipulated in other ways than what Netflix originally envisioned.