A crowd sourced website to check on which streaming service, a movie/season is available

[drex44]

Project description

Many times, I want to watch a movie so I google whether the movie/season is available on my streaming service Netflix/Amazon video. So a central directory where I could search it and maybe even set notification about when it will be available. That would be awesome.

Relevant Technology

Any web technology can be used but I am thinking about using NodeJS ecosystem.

• ReactJS/NextJS
• NodeJS -MySQL/MongoDB

Complexity and required time

Complexity

• [ ] Beginner - This project requires no or little prior knowledge of the technolog(y|ies) specified to contribute to the project
• [X] Intermediate - The user should have some prior knowledge of the technolog(y|ies) to the point where they know how to use it, but not necessarily all the nooks and crannies of the technology
• [ ] Advanced - The project requires the user to have a good understanding of all components of the project to contribute

Required time (ETA)

• [ ] Little work - A couple of days
• [X] Medium work - A week or two
• [ ] Much work - The project will take more than a couple of weeks and serious planning is required

[KOLANICH]

A solution may be a python script, parsing the Wikipedia page using mwparserfromhell and trying to find the latest episode date.

[taavs]

Nice idea! I think localization is an issue as well. Since Netflix distributes different content for each country. But maybe thats an issue to be considered later on...

[BenjaminHoegh]

This sounds like a fun challenge to code, I'm in

[drex44]

@BenjaminHoegh That's great! Let's get started then. we can discuss the implementation details Implementation details.

[onozasi]

This sounds like a fun project idea @drex44. How would you like to share more details about this approach on Utopian IdeaHub show? Trust me, this is going to be very interesting.

[KobbyMmo]

This is actually going to be fun. I'm in

[FredrikAugust]

I can definitely recommend being on the show @drex44, I was on a couple of weeks ago, and it was very educational and entertaining :)

[drex44]

@FredrikAugust I'm going to join on this monday. Let's see how it goes :).

[nishitmehta1]

This use case is already satisfied by https://www.justwatch.com/

[alp82]

Sorry for resurrecting but there is also https://github.com/alp82/goodwatch-monorepo

It's open-source and offers:

• Streaming availability per country
• Ratings from IMDb, metacritic, rotten tomatoes
• DNA: detailed tags used for similarity

Currently the recommendation engine and social features are worked on.

Disclaimer: I'm the creator