Import movies into your Netflix queue
So this post is a little different from the usual – think of it as market research. I have it in mind to write a little app that lets you import a load of titles into your Netflix queue. So if you have a subscription with, say, Blockbuster and you want to give Netflix a try, you could easily add the movies from your Blockbuster queue into your Netflix queue.
So the question is: is this worth doing? Would people actually use it?
If you would, leave a comment. If 50 people say ‘Yes’, then I’ll get started…
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If you are talking about a desktop app, that would be awesome – particularly if it had import and export
Well, I was thinking more of a web-based app; you’d save your Blockbuster queue as an HTML file (using Save Page in your browser) , then upload it to the web app, which would put those files in your Netflix queue.
I’ll count that as one vote for ‘yes’
Yes!
Yes, I would definitely use this.
Please do it!
Yes please. Especially if it could be a simple list of titles in an excel file. I’m up against this problem now as I try to figure out how to get my Netflix DVD queue (downloaded from my DVD queue’s RSS feed since I cancelled DVDs) into my Instant queue, without having to click each of the hundred movies every now and then to see if they’re available on instant. The API is there, but I definitely don’t have time to dig into that right now!
I would love to see a local script for managing one’s queue. Recently, Netflix has begun randomly rearranging my instant queue! It would be great if I could export my queue after arranging it properly, and then re-import it any time something changes (or after making changes to the exported list myself).
This option is far better than the current Netflix API things like Feedfliks (which charges for the useful features), and the same data should be available to the end user. External applications could sort the queue in a far superior way than the current options.
Please consider writing a script/application or appending an existing one (such as the “Netflix Queue Sorter” Greasemonkey script or the “Netflix Addict” project on Sourceforge) to include both an export and import feature. Thank you.
Would like to migrate Blockbuster queue to Netflix.