Why It Matters That Netflix Closed Its Public API

On June 13, Netflix's VP of Edge Engineering, Daniel Jacobson, sent the following letter to the service's third-party developers:

Netflix API Developers,

As Netflix continues to grow internationally, the emphasis of our engineering efforts is to satisfy a growing member base and a growing number of devices. To better focus our efforts and to align them with the needs of our global member base, we will be retiring the public API program. Effective on November 14, 2014, public API developers will no longer be able to access Netflix content. All requests to the public API will return 404 errors.

Thank you to for participating in the ecosystem throughout the years.

Daniel Jacobson
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