Read NetFlix Genre and SubGenre Lists

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What functionality would you like to see added?
The ability to read NetFlix Genre and SubGenre listing and select a movie 
through Understudy.

Currently, any NetFlix RSS feed can be read by Understudy.  However, Netflix 
RSS feeds are 
insufficient in three main ways ...
1) NetFlix RSS feeds are NOT exclusively Watch Instantly, but contain DVD in 
the mail titles as 
well.
2) NetFlix RSS feeds are not available for subgenres, but just at genre level
3) NetFlix RSS feeds are only the current top 25, and not all movies in the 
genre or subgenre.

However, the Netflix website DOES generate a current list of all the Watch 
Instantly movies in a 
subgenre with the http://www.netflix.com/WiGenre? URL.  You can put in any 
genre (&pgid=307 
for comedy, for example) or subgenre.  Unfortunately, this URL doesn't generate 
a RSS feed that 
Understudy can understand.

The new functionality that I'd like to see in Understudy would be to read in 
the html information 
from that webpage into Understudy so that users can browse through the 
available Watch 
Instantly titles in a subgenre.

Currently, a user has to go through the NetFlix website, select a genre and 
subgenre, then 
browse through that list, find a movie, select it, add it to the NetFlix queue, 
then wait up to 20 
minutes for the RSS feed to update, then go into Understudy and select the 
queue and then the 
movie.  It would be nice to be able to do the browsing directly in Understudy, 
and this 
functionality would allow that.

Thanks for all the work on Understudy.  It is a great program....

Original issue reported on code.google.com by nm_clar...@msn.com on 19 Apr 2009 at 10:15

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Understudy is intended more for accessing an existing queue and playing the 
videos,
rather than browsing for videos or managing a queue.

Original comment by kirk.kel...@rochester.edu on 29 Aug 2009 at 1:58

• Changed state: WontFix