Consider using kickass API about instant-movie-streamer

[darxtrix]

Yeah, I agree with you. There are clients out there which are doing scraping behind the scenes but there is not point to use them 😄
One thing you can do is mask the official API client by creating some wrapping functions( a small flask app would do) considering the functionality you require and deploy it somewhere( heroku ?). By this means your API KEY would remain protected and user end of the app will stay the same.

[yask123]

Thanks for your suggestion.
I did try to use it, but struggled a lot with obtaining their API key.
With each api key their is a limit to a number of queries and I can't distribute this software with my API key included.
This would have made installation a bit more tedious (Everyone would need to obtain an API key on their own in order to run it ).

I'll keep this issue open, if in future they make their API accessible without using any key, I'll modify it to use it.

[yask123]

Yea, thats a great idea. But the downsides of this will be:

• Maintaining a server and its costs
• API limits will be reached very quickly, since many people would be using the same.

Free account in Heroku provides limited no of free dynos. If it sleeps, there is a delay before it wakes up again. And if 100% of the account quota is used up, at that point application’s dynos will be put to sleep for the remainder of that month.

https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/free-dyno-hours

[darxtrix]

Yeah, these would be the issues. Better start fundraising then 😅 !

[yask123]

This 4c0ab9e commits changed the source torrents from Kat to Skytorrent.