sorens/ratings-exporter — Issue #3: support fetching title ratings in batches
Author: sorens
Created: 2011-12-22 03:35:38+00:00
State: open

Netflix's API supports fetching rating information for titles in batches. When I tried it with 500 items, it failed. So I decided to just use a single title per request. However, if there are users out there with more than 5,000 movies in their history, then they won't be able to download all those data in one day (which we already support). An optimization is to support batching up the requests for movie title ratings into larger blocks to reduce the number of requests.

One caveat is that we'll have to remember the order of movies in the request. If there is no rating information available for the title, I believe the API returns an empty XML element with no data about which one it was. So keeping the order of the request will be important to be able to mark those items as fetched but nothing to export.