The Stupid Simple Blog decided to write and share the code he wrote to create a RSS feed for his Netflix queue:
http://www.stupidsimple.org/blog/index.php/archives/2004/08/15/netflix-rss-experiment/
Definitely not for everyone:
I used wget and my mozilla cookies file to grab the HTML for my queue, parsed it with a simple perl script and wrote the output to an RSS file. Once I got it all working, I wrapped it in a shell script.
I have try this out myself, but in the meantime you can subscribe to his feed here (why you'd want to do that, I have no idea).
Gotta love a blogger that writes:
"I don’t know why, I just want to, ok?"
and...
"God, I am such a geek."
Me, too. (I mean the "gotta love" part.)
I just subscribed. It's like DaVinci or Columbus. Just proving it can be done.
But imagine this: you've got some friends with similar, but slightly different tastes. Or imagine that you had the list of somebody that knows, like, everything about flicks and it awes you to know - and share - their list.
Imagine Tarentino's list. (How's that spelled?)
Thanks for the link. (Scripting News - thanks, Dave.)
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Posted by: "-" | August 17, 2004 at 01:29 PM
I actually did this very thing.. only the whole reason i did it was so i could read my friend's lists.
I wrote a web application where they could enter their netflix user id (easily pulled in clear text out of your cookie) and enter it into my database on my site.
my site then hits netflix and pulls down everyone's list to my database.
It's inaccessible to anyone without a membership on my site though, as i'm afraid of netflix getting their panties bunched over it.
I actually proposed this as a feature to netflix via their comment form before i hacked my own.. and received no reply.
Posted by: Aaron | August 26, 2004 at 09:59 PM
http://www.azulinteractive.com/blog/netflix/
i found a script online that does this... but it's only my queue..
check it out
Posted by: Tony Garcia | August 29, 2004 at 07:02 PM
Netflix now provides RSS feeds for your queue among other things: http://www.netflix.com/RSSFeeds. Check out the URL for my queue built from an RSS feed provided by Netflix.
Posted by: fizzle | October 14, 2004 at 05:15 PM
That didn't come out quite the way I planned.
Netflix RSS Feeds (including your Queue if you're logged in):
http://www.netflix.com/RSSFeeds
My queue based on an RSS feed provided by Netflix:
http://pcp574853pcs.wilmsc01.tn.comcast.net/home/netflixQ.php
Posted by: fizzle | October 14, 2004 at 05:18 PM
Any idea if it's possible to get an RSS feed from Blockbuster's My Q?
Posted by: Dean | August 07, 2005 at 10:14 PM