I'm waiting for the API to update to reflect the release of Alien: Romulus now streaming on Hulu but it still doesn't show it on the TMDB watch providers response. However it does show it on the JustWatch website. So I was wondering, does anyone know when the data will update on TMDB and what timing I should expect? Thanks!
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Réponse de Waffiq
le 22 novembre 2024 Ă 03h27
i think its about the cache, just wait maybe
Réponse de lgrube3
le 22 novembre 2024 Ă 07h16
Thanks. If it's important for me to show this info as soon as it becomes available, how do I clear the cache?
Réponse de Waffiq
le 22 novembre 2024 Ă 09h17
I got the result for
US
and its already thereRéponse de lgrube3
le 22 novembre 2024 Ă 09h32
Thanks! I see it now too in my response but it's more than 24 hours late. I was going to try and build a service that checks for changes in watch providers which would require it to be timely and not cached. Any suggestions on how I might do this?
Réponse de Waffiq
le 22 novembre 2024 Ă 10h10
It should be only cached for 6-8 hours based on here
I think theres nothing we can do, and Travis already explain it here .
Réponse de superboy97
le 22 novembre 2024 Ă 10h27
The data are transmitted from JustWatch to TMDB once per 24 hours. After that, our API cache apply.
Réponse de lgrube3
le 22 novembre 2024 Ă 10h36
This is super helpful information and explains why I didn't see the updated information for 24+ hours but unfortunate to hear :(
It's probably too much to ask for more frequent updates from JustWatch given the current agreements in place and a reduced cache time for this API I presume.
Otherwise it doesn't sound like TMDB would make for a timely data source of movies 'now streaming'. Unless there's another path forward that I'm not seeing.
Réponse de Travis Bell
le 22 novembre 2024 Ă 11h35
We're limited by the data we get from JustWatch. They only provide us a single daily export. We process it a few hours later, and then if the data is there, it will start appearing on TMDB within ~8 hours. The catch here is if the data is there. Often times there is a day delay (24 hours) on the export we get from JW, so in reality it won't appear until a full day has passed, which is more like ~32 hours later.
Réponse de lgrube3
le 24 juillet 2025 Ă 23h13
@travisbell do you think it would be possible for the data from JustWatch to reset the cache? I realize we don't want to reset the cache for all edits (to prevent abuse) but maybe the JustWatch daily export could reset the cache for any films/series that were updated?
Réponse de lgrube3
le 26 juillet 2025 Ă 12h24
Also related question: Why do I see on TMDB website, Happy Gilmore 2 is streaming on Netflix but in the Watch Providers response for the same movie, we see an empty object returned?
Does the TMDB website get access to the watch providers data before everyone else?
Réponse de ticao2 🇧🇷 pt-BR
le 26 juillet 2025 Ă 13h43
I just made the API request and received the response below.
Didn't you receive the same response?
Did you receive a blank response?
I don't think so.
JW data is only available once a day.
And I believe the same data is available for both the WEB interface and the API.
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1263256-happy-gilmore-2
Réponse de lgrube3
le 26 juillet 2025 Ă 14h11
Yes, it's now available but there was a long delay (many hours) between when TMDB website was showing the Netflix provider and I was getting empty response from watch providers end point.
Réponse de superboy97
le 26 juillet 2025 Ă 17h48
Like for every other data, there is a cache on the API. They appear immediately on the website and can take up to 8 hours to be available on the API.
This was already explain in the november 2024 discussion.