I have a lot of streaming services (free and paid) an rely on the watch now button to find my next watch. But recently I noticed that the data is often wrong and the title is not on this platform to watch. I know you get the info from JustWatch, how often do you refresh those titles?
For example “The 4400” (The 4400 - Trakt) has been listed on Paramount+ Canada and Joyn Plus Germany for months - neither of these platforms has had that title for those months since I searched for it. I know I could just check either site myself every time, but especially with VPN and a lot of services to choose from it gets annoying when I finally decide what to watch and it’s not available again. I had at least 30 those instances in the last few weeks alone and I can’t refresh data on every title every time. Is there something that can be done on your end or is Just Watch the problem and I just have to bear with it or find alternatives?
Sometimes yes, sometimes no, also sometimes different for countries. Here a few examples I just found. Where there is no country indicated it is US-Streaming.
From my previous experience, JustWatch is always correct (or it refreshes correctly within a day or so).
There is something somewhere with the integration between JustWatch and Trakt that’s not working correctly, as I also pointed out several times.
Just a few days ago I refreshed a title (not even sure which one was it) that was showing as unavailable on JustWatch, but Trakt was showing it as available to watch on Netflix.
I haven’t really tried the manually refresh on everything, but yes, it worked. Still the problem remains - I can’t go through every title I might want to watch and manually refresh it just in case the data might be wrong. If that continues to be the case, I have to search Just Watch myself every time and then I might as well not use Trakt for that in the first place. Especially if it might be the other way around as well (which I haven’t noticed yet, because how would I) - if there is something available to watch on a streaming site and Trakt won’t show it as such. Then every “Filter by Streaming Service” is unreliable and I might as well not use that feature at all.
Manually refreshing always fixed the titles in my case as well.
However, the OP is right. Even tho I still filter my watchlist based on streaming platforms, I cannot rely on it 100% and I end up checking the titles on JustWatch as well, which kinda (totally) defeats the purpose of the integration. And as the OP said, there could be a possibility that some titles are in fact available and won’t show on Trakt, but how would we know?
I’m a bit sad about this tbh, it has the potential of an awesome feature - if it would work properly.
Yeah, I’m not suggesting manually refreshing everything. I just wanted to check if that fixed it. The manual refresh uses the JustWatch API vs. the nightly data refreshes use a batch operation that is a bit different. It’s hard to track this down, but it appears something might be different in the nightly data.
I guess it must be different every night then, because some titles have been listed on a certain streaming site on Trakt for weeks ans haven’t been available there for weeks. There is nothing I could do outside of manual refreshing everything, right?
Prime seems to be the worst service for incorrect WatchNow. I just filtered my watchlist by Prime, and have around 100 titles, most are not available. For a specific example, “A Change of Seasons (1980)” has been listed on trakt as available on Prime for months - it is not. I manually check about once a month. Looking at JustWatch, they say it is not available for streaming, but they do have a generic Prime link. Is that the problem? Any way to identify and delete generic links?
@GeneQWare Got me interested here a bit and wanted to check this out. I assume THIS is the movie in question? It seems like currently it is on Amazon Prime but only in Spain - would this match your Watch Now settings country?
Also tried adding it to my Trakt Watchlist and then filtering by all Amazon services and it does not come up so seems correct:
I was afraid that would happen. I had clicked the update JustWatch link, which appears to have worked as it no longer tells me it is on Prime. Want to try another one? Joe the King (1999) - Trakt If the solution is to just click update WatchNow on each title page, I can live with that.
And yes, I verified that my WatchNow country is USA.
