[HN Gopher] Ask HN: Service to find minimal set of streaming pro...
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       Ask HN: Service to find minimal set of streaming providers?
        
       Given a set of TV programs, does anyone know of a service that will
       show me the min set of streaming services I'd need to subscribe to
       in order to be able to view these programs? Minimize by either a)
       total monthly cost or b) number of providers
        
       Author : rlewkov
       Score  : 6 points
       Date   : 2022-03-10 21:49 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
       | robcohen wrote:
       | It think something like this would need to scrape the information
       | from each service, which sounds like a lot of scraper upkeep for
       | a variety of different sources.
       | 
       | I think a more interesting question is whether there is a public
       | API that has data for what shows are on what services. The app
       | itself would be pretty easy to build with good data coming in.
       | 
       | My strategy is to subscribe to a service if I want to watch
       | something on it, binge everything worth watching on the service
       | then unsubscribe and repeat in 6 months or a year. Yeah, I need
       | to stop watching television.
        
       | rventure wrote:
       | This is a service called 'JustWatch' has some data on TV show
       | availability
        
         | rlewkov wrote:
         | Thanks. Gave it a look. Sounds like it might be helpful though
         | not exactly what I want ... was quite sure the exact app that I
         | described didn't exist ... but you never know.
        
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