Today Netflix announced their new API!

We’ve been working for a while to match up Netflix Movie IDs with Film topics in Freebase, and have about 23,000 keys so far. This means you can search for Netflix movies using all the metadata that’s already in Freebase.

For example, now you can find Stephen King adaptations that you can rent from Netflix with a simple MQL query.

[{ "type" : "/book/written_work",
"author" : "Stephen King",
"/media_common/adapted_work/adaptations" : [
{"/film/film/netflix_id" : null}]
}]

Another cool thing about having Netflix keys in Freebase is that they’re now merged with keys from other sources, like Wikipedia. We’ve created a simple bookmarklet that lets you jump directly from browsing a movie in Wikipedia to the same page in Freebase. If you want to use it, you can get it here.

Now when you’re looking at Wikipedia and see a movie you want to rent, just click on the bookmarklet. We’ve actually reconciled the keys, so it can distinguish different movies with the same name. For example try Casino Royale vs Casino Royale.

Since Freebase contains a lot of metadata about movies, writers and celebrities, there many possibilities for movie searches. You could spend all night watching movies starring actresses who dated Justin Timberlake.