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Ask Slashdot: Movie/Video Search Aggregation?

Posted by Soulskill on from the merging-millions-of-methods dept.

raolin writes "I have been running without television service for the last few years, relying instead on Netflix Streaming, Hulu Plus, Amazon, and my personal video library. I have the latter indexed and easily searchable, but I have not managed to find a good aggregator for the streaming services that I use, so when I have friends over and the question 'Can we see X?' is asked, I have to search three streaming sources, which is kind of a drag. I know Netflix has a search API that I could work with, and it seems at least possible that Hulu and Amazon do as well, but before I try to build something myself I thought I'd ask the community. Any thoughts?"

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  1. I have never used it by Zsub · · Score: 5, Informative

    but https://github.com/dacort/mwhich MWhich seems to do exactly what you want?

  2. GoWatchit.com is just such a service by djk1024 · · Score: 2, Informative

    I've been trying out http://gowatchit.com/ . It allows you to set up a queue of desired movies and then alerts you when a movie is available to stream on a selection of feeds. My only complaint is that I've not found a way to distinguish between free (to me) and paid available sources.

    1. Re:GoWatchit.com is just such a service by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

      Check out http://www.canistream.it

      It tells you the ones that are free versus paid. There are also iPhone and Android apps.

  3. Solution already exists... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Have you tried http://zinc.tv? It works for me and does more than your 4 sites.

  4. google TV has it. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    googletv has it. i have Logitech Revue and it lets you search by name and displays where its available. but it not support hulu. searches amazon, netflix, cable, movie packages.

    1. Re:google TV has it. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

      if you configured your external media accounts in googletv, it will tell you whether its free/paid/rent and provides links to each.
      GoogleTV Search is neat.