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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Contestado por Waffiq
el 22 de noviembre de 2024 a las 03:27
i think its about the cache, just wait maybe
Contestado por lgrube3
el 22 de noviembre de 2024 a las 07:16
Thanks. If it's important for me to show this info as soon as it becomes available, how do I clear the cache?
Contestado por Waffiq
el 22 de noviembre de 2024 a las 09:17
I got the result for
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and its already thereContestado por lgrube3
el 22 de noviembre de 2024 a las 09:32
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?
Contestado por Waffiq
el 22 de noviembre de 2024 a las 10:10
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 .
Contestado por superboy97
el 22 de noviembre de 2024 a las 10:27
The data are transmitted from JustWatch to TMDB once per 24 hours. After that, our API cache apply.
Contestado por lgrube3
el 22 de noviembre de 2024 a las 10:36
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.
Contestado por Travis Bell
el 22 de noviembre de 2024 a las 11:35
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.
Contestado por lgrube3
el 24 de julio de 2025 a las 23:13
@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?
Contestado por lgrube3
el 26 de julio de 2025 a las 12:24
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?
Contestado por ticao2 🇧🇷 pt-BR
el 26 de julio de 2025 a las 13:43
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
Contestado por lgrube3
el 26 de julio de 2025 a las 14:11
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.
Contestado por superboy97
el 26 de julio de 2025 a las 17:48
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.