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Re:Show HN: your personal, self-built productivity tool by swanson on Tuesday February 12, 2013 @10:12AM (#5207245)
More of an anti-productivity tool, but I built a small app to manage my TV watching queue because I wasn't happy with any of the 5+ alternatives I tried.

http://www.queuerunner.com/

https://github.com/swanson/queue-runner

The "Killer Feature" is really the lack of features: all the other tv episode tracking guides have a bunch of Social crap, cover art, or lacked a unified queue. All I wanted was a single queue of episodes that automatically gets added to when new stuff airs.

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Re:Show HN: your personal, self-built productivity tool by timtamboy63 on Wednesday February 13, 2013 @12:19PM (#5214284)
Awesome, any chance you can sare the APIs you used?
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Re:Show HN: your personal, self-built productivity tool by swanson on Wednesday February 13, 2013 @03:14PM (#5215391)
Sure - it uses the TraktTv API (http://trakt.tv/api-docs) which I believe is based on the TheTVDB. I picked that one because it had JSON (TheTVDB uses XML and you have to request a key).

I run a cron job that polls the API once a day to check for new episodes.

Here's the code: https://github.com/swanson/queue-runner/blob/master/app/doma...

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