Data

#TV listing data

TV listings with Zap2it

http://www.zap2it.com/tvgrid/_xhr/schedule?time=1412467200&lineupid=USA-DFLTP&zip=94114&tz=US%2FPacific&searchId=

“time” is right now in epoch seconds. You can play with it for debugging

Alternative: TV listings with tvguide.com

http://mobilelistings.tvguide.com/Listingsweb/ws/rest/schedules/70178.16777216/start/1412458200/duration/120?ChannelFields=Name%2CFullName%2CNumber%2CSourceId&ScheduleFields=ProgramId%2CEndTime%2CStartTime%2CTitle%2CAiringAttrib%2CCatId&formattype=json&disableChannels=music%2Cppv%2C24hr

this one might be simpler in its structure. epoch time after /start/

UK listing

This one seems to be pretty straight forward

Alternative :

https://www.themoviedb.org/documentation/api

Data about quality

IMDb ratings

This seems like all we need. We get the rating in the response http://www.omdbapi.com/?t=True%20Detective

You can add year for more certainty in the matching http://www.omdbapi.com/?t=True%20Grit&y=1969

Or make a search if we only have partial data http://www.omdbapi.com/?s=Star%20Wars&r=json

Or go directly on the imdb ID http://www.omdbapi.com/?i=tt1285016

Twitter ranking

This is another interesting signal. Maybe we could combine them, or make a prototype for each http://tweettv.com/guides/local-trend/ajax?_=1412473908515

Other stuff

Samsung phones IR blaster

Class SamsungIRComm

irDude's project

IR code databases

http://www.commandfusion.com/irdatabase http://www.remotecentral.com/cgi-bin/codes/samsung/tv_functions/