We do not have discrete sources like that. We simply have a field to store a "digital" release date, but there's no link to any articular sources.

Netflix used to have a public API but they shut that down a few years ago. There's only two ways anyone is doing that anymore, first is through an official partnership with Netflix. That's the only legal way; the other way is people scraping their website or a website that is an official partner. I'm sure lots are doing the latter as Netflix has been very strict about who they let be a partner.

So the long and short of it, we don't have that data.

This is so much more work than I original thought it would be. Seems like there is a data race going on of who can collect the most data on movies and who has the best data.

I think having a NetFlix list ordered by popularity would be a great feature, but scraping seems to be the only way to get the list.

They have a GitHub account and projects there, but so far I haven't found anything that hints there is an open API.

https://github.com/netflix

Seems like there is a data race going on of who can collect the most data on movies and who has the best data.

Pretty much everyone is closing their API's. There is a significant cost to running these at scale (I would know) and for a lot of companies, it offers no real value to their bottom line. That statement is completely false for TMDb as we rely on a quid pro quo relationship with our users.

but so far I haven't found anything that hints there is an open API.

There isn't. It was a huge deal when they shut down:

• https://techcrunch.com/2014/06/13/netflix-api-shutdown/
• https://techcrunch.com/2014/11/16/netflix-api/
• https://gigaom.com/2014/11/14/netflix-is-shutting-down-its-public-api-today/

It was a very deliberate step. They took it completely down. Only a very small number of special white listed users got to keep using it. And since then, they only partner with very special partners.