Updated as of 08/25/07.

This thread has been around since 2004 I think, I have not been a Netflix subscriber for sometime so the plug-in got a bit crusty, like all screen scrapers when the site being scrapes changes the application needs to change.

At the request of Mitch I have spent a good part of today fixing all of the issues I am aware of, that includes:

1. It works on VISTA now, you have to manually install it but I did confirm it works.
2. All images are shown now, a previous site change at Netflix broke this.
3. Better support for box sets and dual disk sets, previously these did not show cover art.
4. Added support for Move To Top.
5. Updates the text to be more consistent with the current Netflix site.
6. Correct data now shows up for the Recent Activity page, site changes broke this.
7. Clean data is now shown for the movie description, previously a extra image was shown.
8. Fixed the login page to work with keyboards better.
9. Miscelaneous bug fixes.

Most notably what I did not do was:

1. Update the installer to cary the new bits.
2. Update the installer to work on VISTA.
3. Update the experience to be consitent with VISTA.

I wanted to say thanks to Mitch who nagged me to fix this and donated in support; I certanly would not have bothered if you had not contacted me and helped with the testing (I no longer have a MCE 2005 machine).

As for where you can get it:

Install for MCE 2005: http://www.unmitigatedrisk.com/mce/mynetflix.msi

Update for MCE 2005 and bits for VISTA: http://www.unmitigatedrisk.com/mce/mynetflixupdate.zip

Source for whole package including the installer: http://www.unmitigatedrisk.com/mce/mynetflixsource.zip

If anyone is interested in taking over this project let me know, I would like to see it re-done with a provider model that allows support for many rental providers, for it to use MCML, etc; I have a solid design in mind just no time, you would have to be reasonably compenent in C# and preferably have a artistic eye.

Remember this has been released under a shared source license so you can take it and do with it as you please.

Please try to use this thread for questions/problems.

This looks like a great add-in and would enjoy using it but being in Canada I use Zip, which is basically a Canadian equivalent of  Netflix. 

Any chance you would consider modifying your app for us Zip users?

I intend to re-do the add-in at some point to genericize it so that you can register a module with the add-in for new services this would allow others to write a small peice that would integrate with the mirad of rental services out there.

The main problem is acquiring the data, I had originally written this for my self and did screen scraping; I supported a lot more features to but when Netflix made their RSS feeds availible I re-did it based on those and made it generally availible.

If ZIP supports RSS it would not be hard for me to support them, if so let me know otherwise it will have to wait until I can abstract out the data provider stuff and someone else can add it

Would love to have Blockbuster OnLine access as well - but not sure they have an RSS feed yet.

BBO is one that I likley will add myself as I can see switching to them, they do not however have a RSS feed so it will be some time before I do so (more work).

Unfortunately, no RSS feed for ZIP.  I guess I'll just need to wait.

I have to say, this is one of the plug-ins I was most excited to try out when I built my system, unfortunately I have run into a small problem. Everytime I put in my login info I get an Internet Explorer error that states "You have error An invalid character was found in text content." I have tried inputting the info with both a keyboard and my remote to no avail. Would appreciate any thoughts.

I get the same error every time.

Ryan,  I really enjoy your plugins however this latest release of MyNetflix is not functioning for me.  Installation ran fine however when i enter my correct sign-on info, the program "clicks" a few times and returns right back to the sing-on page.  This is cyclical and i can never enter my que or the service.  I don't get any active-x problems or any other errors either.  Is there something i should try to get this to worK?  Thanks for all your contributions.

 

Samsonite

ernisse what error are you getting?

 

Can you try to log in via the netflix.htm directly (invoke via IE) and see if you get a error in ie?

millpub - Not sure what the problem is, do me a favor invoke netflix.htm directly with IE and see if a javascript error is given in the bottom left hand corner of IE.

I will do my best ot help you resolve this.

I always get the same error, even when I try to access netflix.htm directly from IE. The error states "You have an error An invalid character was found in text content." I have over 100 movies in my Netflix queue, not sure if that has anything to do with it.

Ryan,  my problem existed with netflix itself.  I accidentally turned my account into just an invitation to join.  Very weird.  I have it fixed now.  Thanks!

Samsonite

The number of items in your queue should not be a problem.

Can you do this in IE by invoking netlfix.htm and document each of your interactions with the page, after each interaction look in the bottom right hand corner of the browser window for a javascript error.

Send your results to me as a PM in TGB

Turns out that sometimes netflix does not propery escape the special characters in their RSS feeds; you will get the error in question if this happens.

I can write a simple function to sanatize their XML for them before applying the XSL to get the 10' UI, I will do this on the next release; in the mean time if you get this error go look at your RSS feed and search for special characters like the ?, &, etc and remove those titles from your queue.