Netflix – how many movies you’ve rented
Netflix is a great service, it's a shame they don't seem to provide any APIs. Oh, well, we'll have to resort to other means of extracting data.
A little javascript to count how many movies you've rented:
document .getElementById('returned_movies') .getElementsByTagName('tbody')[0] .getElementsByTagName('tr') .length
You can put this code in a bookmarklet or simply type in the Firebug console.
As people say "your markup is your API".
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January 11th, 2008 at 5:03 pm
Oh my. I’m not sure I WANT to know how many Netflix movies I’ve rented. Eek!
February 19th, 2008 at 3:09 am
Hopefully Microformats will actually make your markup into an API. I try to do that with my website, but I got lazy half way through.