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Let us know which ones you want !",{"problem":48,"audience":54,"pricing":66,"motivation":9,"time_to_build":9,"stack":72,"openness":73,"stage":74,"team_size":73},{"value":49,"source":50,"evidence":51},"Finding which streaming services carry a TV show or movie","maker",[52],{"id":53},"post",{"value":55,"source":56,"evidence":57},"Developers building apps around TV and movie availability","inferred",[58,62],{"id":59,"by":60,"text":61},"15589431","megiddo","I've already started on an app. I've been hoping for an API like this for a couple years now.",{"id":63,"by":64,"text":65},"15585063","virtuexru","Good lord I've been wanting\u002Fwaiting for someone to do this and you've finally delivered! Huge kudos. I'll definitely be using & keeping an eye on this. I'd much rather find what…",{"value":67,"source":50,"evidence":68},"Free, maker says it should stay free",[69],{"id":70,"by":10,"text":71},"15586482","Yes, it should stay free :)",[],"unknown","launched",{"praise":76,"objections":87,"requests":105,"questions":153,"alternatives":172},[77],{"value":78,"source":79,"evidence":80},"Useful service that people have wanted for a while","commenter",[81,82,83],{"id":63,"by":64,"text":65},{"id":59,"by":60,"text":61},{"id":84,"by":85,"text":86},"15585203","jgalt212","Seems very useful, right now to do this, I need to run a search on Roku. And not all my TVs have Roku.",[88,98],{"value":89,"source":79,"evidence":90},"Only UK and US regions supported so far",[91,95],{"id":92,"by":93,"text":94},"15585121","StevenRayOrr","It only appears to pull data for UK\u002FUS services right now. So while it does seem to separate out the content according to region, us Canadians will have to make due without.",{"id":96,"by":10,"text":97},"15585742","Content is tagged per region, but we only support uk and us at the moment. We will add Canada as soon as possible",{"value":99,"source":79,"evidence":100},"Scraping data raises legality concerns",[101],{"id":102,"by":103,"text":104},"15589080","sliptrack","Do you use any frameworks or services for the scrapers? Also, any concerns about legality of scraping?",[106,125,135,146],{"value":107,"source":79,"evidence":108},"Add more regions such as Canada, India and Netherlands",[109,110,113,117,121],{"id":96,"by":10,"text":97},{"id":111,"by":10,"text":112},"15585790","We support regions but currently support uk and us, we are looking at adding more regions ASAP",{"id":114,"by":115,"text":116},"15585115","msravi","Useful! Can you set a region so it checks only that region? Also, can you add Hotstar (India)?",{"id":118,"by":119,"text":120},"15585284","pankajleon","India.",{"id":122,"by":123,"text":124},"15585199","photonios","This is great! If you could make it so that I could specify the region, so that it would only look on, for example the Dutch or Romanian Netflix (the two countries where I often…",{"value":126,"source":79,"evidence":127},"Add Hulu, HBO Now and Google Play for US",[128,132],{"id":129,"by":130,"text":131},"15585185","mox1","Adding Hulu to the U.S. would be nice.",{"id":133,"by":60,"text":134},"15586009","US: Hulu, HBO Now, Google Play",{"value":136,"source":79,"evidence":137},"Provide show IDs or lookup by TMDB id",[138,142],{"id":139,"by":140,"text":141},"15588457","zeronight","This is great. I would suggest giving shows an ID though. Looking at the docs, it looks like I have to search every time and just hope the show is still returned in the search…",{"id":143,"by":144,"text":145},"15587338","jarommcdonald","Noticed in the API results that you have images from TMDB ... does this mean you link your data to TMDB ids? If you could expose an endpoint to search by TMDB id the utility of…",{"value":147,"source":79,"evidence":148},"Season and episode list support",[149],{"id":150,"by":151,"text":152},"15588957","twbarber","Do you have season and episode list support, or plan on adding it?",[154,164],{"value":155,"source":79,"evidence":156},"How is data sourced and how often is it updated",[157,161],{"id":158,"by":159,"text":160},"15585328","rory096","How do you source the data? 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