There is a MT plugin for NetFlix. Actually there are two- one which shows your NetFlix queue (sort of useful, if a little exhibitionistic) and another which shows your reviews of various movies, complete with stars.
So, I checked it out- using Lil’ Dy’s NetFlix account I rated a few movies. NetFlix also has a Recommendations function, which takes your ratings and uses them to recommend other movies you might like. However since I hadn’t rated enough, I had no recommendations. So I rated some more. And some more. Now I have something liek 200 reviewed movies- and still no Recommendations. I show this to ShaColby and he showed me what it does- all his recommendations were movies he hated but hadn’t reviewd yet. So, whatever! Back to the task at hand- installing this NetFlix thingy. A couple of issues:- It doesn’t have an image of the movie. Just the title. Okaaaay…. maybe I could write a hybrid NetFlix / Amazon MT tag and call it “Consumer Whore.”
- Turns out the NetFlix plugin isn’t even consuming a web service- it is actually a hack written by the guy who is one half of SixApart, which actully sucks in the entire NetFlix page using a session ID (a cookie), which in turn is copied from the URL when surfing the site in person. This is not sexy.
Why oh why doesn’t NetFlix have cool web services available for consumption like Amazon does? I need more cool information source crap to automatically hook into my blog!