I am currently developing a website that is using the Netflix API to populate my database. Because of the nature of my site, I can't simply call the API every time I run a query, I need to completely populate my database with each movie's information before I release it to the public.
I have downloaded the entire catalog and populated as much as I can from that, but that doesn't have all of the details I need. So, basically, I need to run a query for every single movie to get all of the data I need.
I wrote a script that would loop through all of the movies and query the details one at a time, but I shortly found out about the 5000 requests per day limit.
I did some searching and found a few people have requested a temporary increase:
But these didn't really point me in the right direction on how to request that, or if it was approved.
Long story short, can I have a temporary increase in the per day limit, just until I get all of the current movies completely populated into my system? Once those are in there, I can simply download the entire catalog once a week and fill in anything that I'm missing.
Not to be a dork, but one of the reasons we have limits is to prevent folks from doing just that sort of thing. I don't know anything about your site or what it does or if it violates our Terms of Service.
If you don't feel like discussing things here, you can send a note to apisupport@ and we can follow up off forum.
I am currently developing a website that is using the Netflix API to populate my database. Because of the nature of my site, I can't simply call the API every time I run a query, I need to completely populate my database with each movie's information before I release it to the public.
I have downloaded the entire catalog and populated as much as I can from that, but that doesn't have all of the details I need. So, basically, I need to run a query for every single movie to get all of the data I need.
I wrote a script that would loop through all of the movies and query the details one at a time, but I shortly found out about the 5000 requests per day limit.
I did some searching and found a few people have requested a temporary increase:
http://developer.netflix.com/forum/read/45905
http://developer.netflix.com/forum/read/28576
http://developer.netflix.com/forum/read/34275
But these didn't really point me in the right direction on how to request that, or if it was approved.
Long story short, can I have a temporary increase in the per day limit, just until I get all of the current movies completely populated into my system? Once those are in there, I can simply download the entire catalog once a week and fill in anything that I'm missing.
Thanks!
Message edited by Jason 2 years ago
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JR Conlin – 2 years ago
Not to be a dork, but one of the reasons we have limits is to prevent folks from doing just that sort of thing. I don't know anything about your site or what it does or if it violates our Terms of Service.
If you don't feel like discussing things here, you can send a note to apisupport@ and we can follow up off forum.
Jason – 2 years ago
Thanks for the response. I just sent the email.