Netflix (more) under control

Netflix is not exactly a paragon of transparency, but with a little "hacking" it can be tamed.

Browsing Netflix isn't exactly what you'd call "user-friendly." If we want to find something outside of the "recommendations", which are made according to the viewing history, we have to reserve quite a few hours... At least, let's say, I could have a somewhat decent classification by genres. But it doesn't have... Well, yes, it does, it's just hidden and usable only through a web browser.

The thing works by visiting the https://netflix.com/browse/genre/xx, website where you enter the category code instead of XX. And are these codes? At https://www.netflix-codes.com/, at https://www.whats-on-netflix.com/library/categories/ and elsewhere. On these pages you will find a bunch of genres (Action and Adventure, Comedies, Horror, Music...), and within each of them there are a bunch of categories (Military, Action Comedies, Westerns...). In total, there are over 3500 of these codes or categories, which is not a few and they have neither tail nor head. And what do we mean by "no tail and head" that, for example, the Comedy genre carries the label 6548, and in it Romantic comedies 5475, Stand-Up comedies 11559, Political comedies 2700 and so on... But the search is still more useful than what the service itself offers.

Of course, the question immediately arises whether the method also works in applications for phones, tablets and smart TVs. The answer is - unfortunately no. Android (and iOS) apps work completely differently from web browsers and you can't type a web address into them, and typing code into the app doesn't work either. Unfortunately…

Source: Netflix Codes, What's on Netflix

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