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[ Monday, September 15, 2003 ]
Netflix Queue Plugin 2003
See NetflixSuite Plugins for the very latest version of Netflix Queue.
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Occassionally, two forces collide for me and result in something. In this case, I was engaged in post-labor day real work, but I was also procrastinating by reading the MovableType Support Forum (Tips & Tricks). Here I ran into a thread on Netflix Trouble where Ben's Netflix plugin no longer worked because Netflix, an online movie rental service, had changed their format.
People wanted a working version (I'm not sure how many people, but some people in any case), and asked if anyone would fix it. Well, in the spirit of High Intensity Time Wasting, I could not resist this.
Not being a genius like Ben, I could only kludge together an inelegant rewrite, but I think it works, and that counts for something.
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Update!!! (9/18/03)
I have now developed a total rewrite of the Netflix plugin which I will call Netflix2. And I have added the following arguments (and I quote myself):
Additional arguments for <MTNetflixQueue> are "lastn" "firstn" and "randomn"
These treat your queue as such, i.e., FIFO, but they allude to weblogs where
the "lastn" are the "n" most recent posts. In this plugin , "lastn" returns the
list of "n" movies at the top of your queue, and "firstn" returns the list of
"n" movies at the bottom. "randomn" returns "n" random movies selected from your
queue. So, <MTNetflixQueue session_id = "<your session ID>" lastn = "10"> will
return the next 10 movies you will be viewing.
The plugin gives you some tags to display your Netflix Queue, and thus inform people of your movie viewing tastes and behaviors. For those with no idea about Netflix, you might check it out, and for those in search of the working plugin, download Netflix2 Queue Plugin 2003 here.
Let me know if there are problems, or other issues.
Note (9/20/03) BTW, if you'd like to see a cool mod, check out lomara's version of the plugin here - she's added an image tag to display the movie thumbnail!
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