<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">> What would be particularly nice would be creating a plugin that would parse<br>
</span>> the HTML on the netflix site .....<br>
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Of course, this violates the TOS (scrapping explicitly<br>mentioned) of the NetFlix site.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Ahh... but is writing your own web browser considered scraping? All we would be doing is what any web browser does, downloads a bit of HTML and presenting it to the user. If I use a text based browser, am I scraping because I am not seeing their images. If I run scripts on my browser to hide/manipulate the content displayed, am I scraping?</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">And NetFlix is in progress to removing the developer API<br>
functionality that provided a previously supported method<br>
(to be shut down November 2014) for those with a<br>
developer account.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>The API would have been nice, then we could simply create a grabber for netflix.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
So, like most other platforms, one is likely at best to<br>
see a "NetFlix" button that places one into the NetFlix<br>
experience.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Perhaps, we can hope that NetFlix won't get too controlling... we pay for the content, not for their interface. If we are turned off by the interface and have no way to use something different, they may start to lose people.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
But you are free to dream of a different world, where<br>
content providers do not control the horizontal, and<br>
do not control the vertical.....</blockquote><div><br></div><div>I do. </div><div> </div></div></div></div>