Actual viewing times for Netflix for individual

[tangmin96]

Dear Hector, This is Ming. Thank you so much for your response via the email.  I currently have x17 csv collected for data analysis and it will be really helpful if the actual viewing time of the person could be extracted.  Appreciate if you could advise how it could be done.

[hmartos]

Hi, Ming!

Netflix's Shakti API, which is used to load the viewing activity, returns a field called bookmark, which indicates when the user left off. This is the closest thing to the actual viewing time that you can get from the Restful API.

I saw some inconsistencies in this field when I created the extension, like values greater than the duration of the title, negative numbers, or zero (when it shouldn't be). I want to remember that I even saw a string in this field. This is why I decided to use the more consistent duration field to calculate watching times instead of the bookmark field. If you are interested you can read more about the extension here.

Anyway, I have added a column with this field in the CSV with the viewing activity that you can download with the extension. It is released in version 2.4.0, and should be published in the Chrome Web Store soon.

I hope it helps, let me know if you have further issues!