Watchlist API

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Is there an API for users' Watchlists? 

I have an idea for an app that would require to know people's Watchlists, but I can't seem to find an API from IMDb. Is there one? Does IMDb consider to provide one?

Most service providers like IMDb have an open mind and encourage usage of the account information from their service in apps that have an added value.
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IMDb basically does not currently have an API for any types of data.

They do supply flat files of various data lists in Alternative Interfaces, but these are in a very inconvenient format. They are currently considering offering this in a more useful format, and/or adding an API, but this is unlikely to occur for some time yet and is, in my opinion, unlikely to include an API for user data of any kind.

To see a User's Watchlist, you need to know the User constant and their Watchlist must be public. Since Users are not searchable, it is unlikely that IMDb will supply other ways to access the Watchlists.

I believe that there are many changes that people want to the List sub-system that will be considered far more important by the User community than an API.

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