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<blockquote data-quote="brainbone" data-source="post: 493413" data-attributes="member: 24130">The thing is, they already do have the API, it's what the Roku box, Xbox360, and others use -- and they all essentially use the same API that the silverlight player does.&nbsp; Netflix just hasn't felt the need to document and release the API to the average developer.&nbsp; But I think the document linked above gives the meat of it already (just not in a neat and tidy API reference format), although I admittedly haven't tried every stage of the communication at a deep enough level to know if some key piece of information is missing.We may also find that higher definition versions of a given stream may be available via the API, just not in Silverlight.Edit:<a href="http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:s3d7v5EJeuEJ:pomelollc.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/netflix-messagestxt.doc+pomelollc.files.wordpress.com+netflix&amp;cd=2&amp;hl=en&amp;ct=clnk&amp;gl=us&amp;client=firefox-a" target="_blank">Here's another doc</a> showing the data from a Watch Now Session.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="brainbone, post: 493413, member: 24130"] The thing is, they already do have the API, it's what the Roku box, Xbox360, and others use -- and they all essentially use the same API that the silverlight player does. Netflix just hasn't felt the need to document and release the API to the average developer. But I think the document linked above gives the meat of it already (just not in a neat and tidy API reference format), although I admittedly haven't tried every stage of the communication at a deep enough level to know if some key piece of information is missing. We may also find that higher definition versions of a given stream may be available via the API, just not in Silverlight. Edit: [url=http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:s3d7v5EJeuEJ:pomelollc.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/netflix-messagestxt.doc+pomelollc.files.wordpress.com+netflix&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a]Here's another doc[/url] showing the data from a Watch Now Session. [/QUOTE]

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