scan dvd upc to find in netflix and add to queue

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I do not like to blind buy movies. I prefe to rent from netflix first. But I 
often forget to add 
to netflix when I get back home. What would be great is if queueman could 
implement a 
barcode scanner like what is found in shopsavvy that will find the title on 
netflix quickly and 
easily, and then allow us to add it to the queue.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by arrmihar...@gmail.com on 14 Feb 2010 at 7:50

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Sorry, I haven't been ignoring this one, just doing my research.

Looks like searching by upc shouldnt be hard. Although Netflix but does not 
provide a
method, I do can maintain a upc searchable index meanwhile.

[http://netflix.webbmaster.org/query.php?upc=0043396824393]

The tricky part is scanning the bar code to ghet the upc.  Luckily Zebra 
crossing is
a pretty sweet tool for android phones, and I think I may just leverage that.

[http://code.google.com/p/zxing/wiki/ScanningViaIntent]

Original comment by OlliTech on 10 Mar 2010 at 1:35

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If netflix does not provide an api for searching by upc, you can always check a 
different 
site first. like reference amazon or another site for the name, then send the 
name over 
to netflix.

Original comment by arrmihar...@gmail.com on 10 Mar 2010 at 1:42

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I have attached a zip with some code that I wrote for another project that 
might help in doing this. It uses Amazon Web Services to convert a UPC 
(obtained from ZXing intent as mentioned above) into a title. Once you have the 
title, I am assuming you can hook into your existing code to search Netflix 
with it. You might need to spend some time sanitizing the return value from 
Amazon. You can strip out things like "[Blu-ray]", "Collector's Edition", etc. 
to make it search friendly. Hopefully you can adapt this for use in queueman.

I am using the Base64 encoding lib from here: 
http://iharder.sourceforge.net/current/index.html. I modified Amazon's sample 
class "SignedRequestHelper" to use this instead of having to lug around 
commons-codec.

Here is a snippet on how you can use it:

String upc = FROM_BARCODE_SCANNER_INTENT;
RestClient client = new RestClient();
String url = AwsUrlFactory.getInstance().createUpcQueryUrl(upc, 
AwsConsts.SEARCH_INDEX_DVD);
String response = client.getResponse(url);
AwsItemLookupParser parser = new AwsItemLookupParser(response);
parser.parse();
String title = parser.getTitle();

Hope this helps!

Original comment by travisfi...@gmail.com on 9 Nov 2010 at 2:19

Attachments:

• aws-upc-sample.zip

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One more thing, you need to have an Amazon developer account for this to work. 
Once you sign up, update AwsConsts with your key/secret strings.

Original comment by travisfi...@gmail.com on 9 Nov 2010 at 2:23

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Travis - that's F! awesome!

Question: There is actually a newer branch of QueueMan that introduces some 
nice features like auto-fetch on scroll and better searching using Netflix's 
new OData web service.  I have been working way too much since march, and will 
be doing so until at least February. Unfortunately QueueMan has been suffering 
because of that.

Ok, that wasn't a question, but here it is. 

Would you be interested in contributing your time as well as your expertise?  
QueueMan is opensource, and all contributions would be fully attributed.

Original comment by OlliTech on 12 Nov 2010 at 11:43

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