When accessing http://api.tvmaze.com/schedule?date=2017-02-24 I would expect to also see any Web Channel shows scheduled to air on that day eg The Patriot is listed on the site under the calendar but does not appear in the schedule endpoint.
Is there a way to retrieve web channel shows for a particular date?
david wrote:
See http://www.tvmaze.com/threads/1134/nexflix-show-not-on-schedule#12928
Hi David, thanks for the reply.
Could I make two possible solutions to resolve this:
1. If we call http://api.tvmaze.com/schedule?date=2017-02-24 without country it would return web channel episodes as well.
or
2. Allow the full schedule endpoint to be filtered by date to reduce the amount of data returned eg http://api.tvmaze.com/schedule/full?date=2017-02-24
The reason I ask, is I would like to produce a list of all web shows available in the next 7 days, but downloading the entire schedule is not really feasible for an Android Client, even if I could download all the data over wifi etc, it would be very slow to process in a foreach loop. I realise I could do this in a background service on the device but this kind of defeats the purpose of having a API if I need to download the entire list every 24 hours.
I think we first have to answer the fundamental question of how to deal with multi-country web channels like Netflix, before we can properly decide how to expose them in the API.
This would be really useful to have, there are many popular web channel shows right now and having them excluded by default from standard schedule (with some filtering option) can be inconvenient.
