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?
