Helping people discover content in Disney’s enormous on-demand catalog is a good thing, right? After all, it gets more people watching Disney+ while making your app or website more useful to your customers. But developers need a Disney+ API to make that happen.
Although Disney does a lot for the Open Source community, helping developers create recommendation engines and other Disney+ aware features hasn’t been a priority. We’ll take a look at Disney’s developer relationships and show you how you can enhance your projects with Disney+ metadata.
Is there a Disney+ API?
The Walt Disney Company’s developers use, and contribute to, many Open Source projects. Executives at the company’s game division are even showing more interest in working with indie developers. But that’s as far as they go.
You won’t find a Disney-supported public API that lets you pull metadata about Disney+ content. That’s a major obstacle if you want to include universal search and other streaming-aware features. You could roll your own solution, but scraping Disney+ metadata once is not enough. The information goes stale as content appears and disappears from the Disney+ catalog. Keeping everything up-to-date requires pulling a dedicated team from your core development work.
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The Flixed API enhances your development project
From the start, Flixed’s mission has been to help the cord-cutting community by creating useful content and unique data services such as the Flixed Live TV Streaming Guides. Our team already does the work of compiling and maintaining metadata catalogs for Disney+ as well as other popular on-demand streaming services.
Well-documented and simple to include in your projects, the Flixed API’s RESTful calls deliver accurate results quickly. You can enhance your app experiences with streaming availability notifications, universal search services, or recommendation engines.
Surface Disney+ metadata in your app with the Flixed API
Focus your team on their core mission and let our performant API take care of the rest. Learn more about the Flixed API and how it can benefit your development projects today.
Kelsey Reynolds is the Content Lead at Flixed.
She holds a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the University of Minnesota, and has spent her career writing and editing content about marketing, education, emergency preparedness, science, cannabis, and entertainment.
When she’s not at her computer, Kelsey can usually be found working in her garden or walking her two dogs in the park.
