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Scrape Netflix Catalog Data
While Netflix used to have an official API in 2014 for scraping publicly available catalog data for movies & shows, it has since been shut down, offering little support for anyone wanting to perform some analysis for movies & shows within the Netflix catalog.
Although Netflix shut down it’s “public” API, Netflix still maintains its own internal, unofficial API it uses to communicate with its webapp, TV apps, mobile apps, etc… And if you intercept the network traffic behind Netflix’s mobile apps, you’ll be able to download the catalog data for your user in JSON format, which will vary depending on the country youre IP address is coming from.
HAR File Web Scraper
If using the desktop version of Netflix, you can legally scrape your own Netflix catalog data using our HAR File Web Scraper where you can simply use the Netflix website normally (scroll through the data you want to scrape while you’re recording your web traffic), and you’ll be able to download the intercepted data using our platform. Once you’re done scrolling through your own catalog, simply export the HAR file and upload it here and we will extract out the catalog data into downloadable CSV files.
1. Browse Netflix
Head to the Netflix Website and log in to your account. Then navigate to whatever it is you want to scrape and right click on the screen and hit “Inspect” to open up developer tools and begin recording your web traffic. Refresh the page now that we’re recording and then browse through the data you want to scrape.
2. Export & Download
Once you’ve browsed through the Netflix content, select the “Network” tab under developer tools and click the down arrow labeled “Export HAR…” to download a HAR file containing the raw JSON data Netflix sent to your browser with the catalog data in it. Upload that to the HAR File Web Scraper and look for the parse group with the catalog data in it. Parse the group and you’ll then see downloadable CSV collections that will contain the Netflix data in them.
Note that you will not be able to download actual Netflix content as this is illegal. The methods here are only meant for extracting catalog data about the content on Netflix and comply with the Netflix Terms of Service, as the scraping occurs on a recording of your web traffic instead of on the Netflix website.