Netflix releases API

Posted on Oct, 01 2008

Today in unprecedented move Netflix has opened it's doors with the introduction of Netflix API. Netflix provides more than 8 million subscribers access to more than 100,000 DVD titles plus a growing library of more than 12,000 choices that can be watched instantly on their PCs.

This is only half the news, as their API is free and available for commercial use. The Netflix Web APIs provide the ability for you to integrate Netflix user services into your application. The APIs provide the following capabilities:

Performing searches of movies, TV series, cast members, and directors
Retrieving catalog titles, including details about the title such as name, box art, director, cast, etc.
Determining the subscriber's relationship to a specific title, e.g, in queue, saved, available on DVD, etc.
Managing and displaying queues for users
Providing conveniences such as auto-completion of partial search terms typed by a user.
Displaying a user's ratings and reviews.
Including functional Add and Play buttons in your web application.

For more information visit: http://developer.netflix.com/