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Show HN: Tomatotree.tv - Find your next series to watch using
Rotten Tomatoes
Author : hauxir
Score : 33 points
Date : 2021-08-03 17:04 UTC (5 hours ago)
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| eyeinthepyramid wrote:
| Do you have an agreement with Rotten Tomatoes? I believe RT
| started blocking Justwatch when Justwatch was scraping the RT
| scores.
| flatiron wrote:
| the 100s from rotten tomatos throw it offf i think. i believe
| those are probably very niche shows with only a few reviews
| frankbreetz wrote:
| This is Awesome! I have thought about building something like
| this, but never found the time.
|
| Could you tell us about the tech you used? how did you collect
| the data? how often is it updated? How do you store it?
|
| I'll definitely be using this.
|
| Here are some notes:
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| If something is the "Netflix" network does that mean it is a
| Netflix Original or just on Netflix? It looks like everything has
| just one network, so I would assume the former. You may want to
| add what streaming platform it is on, if you have that data
| available, because that is all people really care about.
|
| It looks like everything always has only one Genre too, but they
| could be more then one. Here is an example:
| https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/jungle_cruise
| hauxir wrote:
| Data is scraped from RT and stored in SQLite. It's updated once
| a day using a python script and the data is then used to
| generate a static HTML.
|
| The network and genre are as displayed on the website. It seems
| series usually only have one genre on RT.
| wcarss wrote:
| One request: allow searches by name/role, e.g.
| performer/writer/producer/director.
|
| For example, when I started to pay attention to these things, I
| noticed that Greg Daniels show-ran or co-created The Simpsons
| (during its golden era), King of the Hill, The Office, and Parks
| and Recreation! So I keep an eye on his newer projects, just in
| case they end up as defining elements of pop culture for the next
| decade.
|
| Similarly, past collaborators like Mike Judge (Beavis and
| Butthead, Office Space, Silicon Valley), Michael Schur (Brooklyn
| Nine-Nine, The Good Place), Bill Oakley+Josh Weinstein (Mission
| Hill), give a great way to branch into similar-ish content,
| especially when paired with ratings, filters, etc. like you have
| here. I already sometimes go wandering through imdb or Rotten
| Tomatoes for exactly this kind of information, to build up
| "family trees" of co-creators+writers of the best stuff, so tools
| to enable that would be awesome.
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| CharlesW wrote:
| I think this is a really solid idea for "what should the next
| filter be?"
| hauxir wrote:
| agreed!
| cjdell wrote:
| I like this, but living in the UK the Netflix / Prime Video
| suggestions are mostly all invalid for me due to different
| country content rights. If there was the option to pick "Netflix
| UK" (for example) this would be perfect. (Yes I know I could faff
| around with VPNs, but most people won't :)
| monkeywork wrote:
| Would be great to filter by number of seasons
| gramakri wrote:
| There is a 'null' as the last item of the category filter
| dropdown
| dancemethis wrote:
| Why do people take that site seriously? Just look at its name -
| "Rotten Tomatoes". It was always meant to be a parody website,
| not for actual reviews.
| wcarss wrote:
| It seems like you might not understand the purpose of the
| website, and have made an assumption based on the name. Rotten
| Tomatoes is not a satire or joke site, it is just a review-
| aggregator, like metacritic is for videogames. It boils media
| down to 2 metrics: the % of positive reviews by actual critics,
| and a % of positive response from audiences.
|
| I'm not certain how the audience score is calculated, but the
| review score is pretty simple. It's also a more interesting
| metric than just a mean score (which is hard to calculate
| anyway, given the mix of thumbs up/stars/bags of popcorn out
| there in professional reviews), because a middling-score
| actually indicates _differences of opinion_ about a movie, i.e.
| that many critics said good things overall, and many said bad
| things. That kind of split may point to a movie actually having
| a unique perspective or feature!
| soylentcola wrote:
| I mainly use it to surface interesting things I might have
| missed otherwise. I generally disregard anything with an
| abysmal rating since it indicates just about everyone had a
| negative opinion. Likewise, if both critics and audience are
| 90% or more positive, I might just check it out, even if it's
| not in my usual "wheelhouse".
|
| The rest is just finding interesting movies/shows that would
| otherwise fly under my radar.
| dancemethis wrote:
| No, _they_ don 't understand the purpose of the _name_.
|
| It will always be a satire and a joke in the heart of the
| individual who will others well.
| Falling3 wrote:
| Looks very cool, but I couldn't use it without changing the body
| background color. The red you're using is borderline painful.
| hauxir wrote:
| darkened it a bit. better?
| Falling3 wrote:
| Better, yea. Here's the color I used, which has a little less
| saturation: #d9534f.
| keroro wrote:
| Could you add the ability to toggle between tv shows and movies?
| hauxir wrote:
| It's only for tv shows
| rpmisms wrote:
| Rotten Tomatoes has consistently been an excellent inverse
| indicator of what media I'll enjoy. A low critic score and high
| audience score means it's probably fun, see Venom for an example.
| nobrains wrote:
| Yeah that works for me as well. But I usually ignore critic
| score and I have noticed that audience score always/mostly
| correlates to the series/movies that I end up liking.
| hauxir wrote:
| Well, then you can sort in reverse ;)
| aloofgrunt wrote:
| Thanks for making this. One suggestion: I want to be able to
| bookmark a search so I can go back through the results later.
| Maybe serializing the search settings in the URL would be
| helpful.
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