Welcome! This is just a simple project where I automate basic Netflix functionality via Selenium.
The first thing you'll need to do is create a my_secrets.py file in the root directory. This file should contain the following lines:
MY_CHROMEDRIVER_PATH = "type your chromedriver path here"
MY_EMAIL = "type your email here"\
MY_PASSWORD = "type your password here"
PREFERRED_USER = ""
In MY_EMAIL, you should type the email for your Netflix login.
In MY_PASSWORD, type the password you use during your Netflix login.
If you have multiple users (for instance, if you share your Netflix account with other people), you can specify a PREFERRED_USER. Make sure to type your preferred user's name as accurately as possible, as it is case-sensitive.
If you do not share your Netflix account with anyone else, you can leave PREFERRED_USER as is.
Next, we'll look into the chrome driver setup.
Notice that I did this entire process on an Ubuntu distribution of Linux, (it was actually the Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2)). Though that should't really matter, I've definitely ran into issues whilst trying to setup the dependencies for this project. Regardless; just follow the commands below, and you should be fine.
mkdir tmp
cd tmp
mkdir driver
cd driver
sudo apt install wget # If you don't have it already
wget https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/2.37/chromedriver_linux64.zip
unzip chromedriver_linux64.zip
sudo mv chromedriver /usr/bin/chromedriver
sudo chown root:root /usr/bin/chromedriver
sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/chromedriver
Make sure your installation worked with
chromedriver --version
If you had previously used chromedriver, run which chromedriver and make sure the output is /usr/bin/chromedriver.
For Linux, you do have to have Chrome installed. Assuming you completed the steps above, this can be done via:
cd tmp
mkdir chrome
cd chrome
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
sudo apt-get install -f
Then type google-chrome to see if it all works.
Once you have your chromedriver and chrome installed, you can change the MY_CHROMEDRIVER_PATH of the my_secrets.py file to "/usr/bin/chromedriver".
Though I never attempted to do this in Windows, theoretically all you need to do is to download the correct version of the driver from this website.
To know which version you need, type chrome://version/ into your Chrome browser (assuming you have that installed. If you don't, install it). Should be the first line you see in that page.
Then place the downloaded chromedriver into a folder you like, and copy the path of that folder into MY_CHROMEDRIVER_PATH, in the my_secrets.py file. Make sure you add an "r" before the string, so it'll be something like
r'C:\Users\user\Downloads\chromedriver_win32\chromedriver.exe'
TDB
The only piece missing from this dependency puzzle is the selenium package. You can easily download it via
pip install selenium
that is, assuming you have python and pip.
It is also good practice to create a python virtual environment, and only install selenium in that environment. You can create one via
python -m venv /path/to/new/virtual/environment
though you do need to install something in apt in order to do that. I will add that to this README.md once done.
In main.py you'll find a sample of what is currently possible with this project.
We start by importing a Netflix() class and creating an object of that class.
Then, you should be able to do n.watch("query"), and if all is set up correctly selenium will open a new instance of Chrome, login to Netflix, search for your query, and play the best match for it. Try running python main.py to see it for yourself.
Have fun!