Netflix API for Ruby

To install: gem install netflix

This gem uses Netflix’s OAuth REST API, you first need to register an application with Netflix at developer.netflix.com/apps/register/

This will provide you with a “consumer key”, “consumer secret”, and “application name”

To use unauthenticated features (catalog search):

TODO

To use authenticated features (i.e. queue management):

Set the consumer/developer config:

Netflix.consumer_key = <your consumer/developer key>
Netflix.consumer_secret = <your consumer/developer secret>

Do OAuth dance: (This is a one-time per user step, save the result somewhere.)
1. Interactive (commandline/irb): This will open a netflix.com web page to ask the user to authenticate, and provide a pin.
```
access_token = Netflix::Client.new.oauth
```
2. or Web application (Rails/Sinatra/etc), define a URL that can handle the callback
```
request_token, auth_url = Netflix::Client.new.oauth_via_callback(my_callback_url)
session[:request_token] = request_token
redirect_to auth_url
```
  Then in the handler for “my_callback_url” (i.e. a Rails controller action) retrieve the :oauth_verifier out of the request params
```
oauth_verifier = params[:oauth_verifier]
request_token = session[:request_token]
access_token = Netflix::Client.new.handle_oauth_callback(request_token, oauth_verifier)
```

After OAuth credentials are established:

access_token = access_token.token
access_secret = access_token.secret
user_id = access_token.params["user_id"]

(Record these, for example in a User table in a database)

client = Netflix::Client.new(access_token, access_token_secret)
user = client.user(user_id)
queue = user.available_disc_queue
discs = queue.discs
disc_one = discs[0]
puts "#{disc_one.title} #{disc_one.id}"
queue.remove(1) #queue is 1-based, so this is first disc

Credits

This work is based on: REST API documentation of Netflix (developer.netflix.com), with some help from twitter gem for OAuth ideas github.com/jnunemaker/twitter/