Show HN: Tomatotree.tv – Find your next series to watch using Rotten Tomatoes

Have you considered trying to work with Rotten Tomatoes? This kind of functionality should really be built into the site. They actually have top X of each year by category pages, but the categories and years are hard-coded to single values, don't allow drop-down filtering, and don't allow ranges. On the other hand, their rankings are more reliable because they adjust raw scores by factors like the number of reviews and ranking of the critics giving the reviews. You might consider doing something similar if you can scrape that information as well.

I like this, but living in the UK the Netflix / Prime Video suggestions are mostly all invalid for me due to different country content rights. If there was the option to pick "Netflix UK" (for example) this would be perfect. (Yes I know I could faff around with VPNs, but most people won't :)

Looks very cool, but I couldn't use it without changing the body background color. The red you're using is borderline painful.

This is Awesome! I have thought about building something like this, but never found the time.

Could you tell us about the tech you used? how did you collect the data? how often is it updated? How do you store it?

I'll definitely be using this.

Here are some notes:

If something is the "Netflix" network does that mean it is a Netflix Original or just on Netflix? It looks like everything has just one network, so I would assume the former. You may want to add what streaming platform it is on, if you have that data available, because that is all people really care about.

It looks like everything always has only one Genre too, but they could be more then one. Here is an example: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/jungle_cruise

the 100s from rotten tomatos throw it offf i think. i believe those are probably very niche shows with only a few reviews

Rotten Tomatoes has consistently been an excellent inverse indicator of what media I'll enjoy. A low critic score and high audience score means it's probably fun, see Venom for an example.

The project is now open source:

https://github.com/hauxir/tomatotree.tv

Would be great to filter by number of seasons

This is very useful. Thank you for making this.

I was going to suggest a dark theme, then I thought why not making one for you (not perfect, but a good place to start): https://pastebin.com/vzA11EG3

Cheers!

Thanks for making this. One suggestion: I want to be able to bookmark a search so I can go back through the results later. Maybe serializing the search settings in the URL would be helpful.

Do you have an agreement with Rotten Tomatoes? I believe RT started blocking Justwatch when Justwatch was scraping the RT scores.

There is a 'null' as the last item of the category filter dropdown

Could you add the ability to toggle between tv shows and movies?

One request: allow searches by name/role, e.g. performer/writer/producer/director.

For example, when I started to pay attention to these things, I noticed that Greg Daniels show-ran or co-created The Simpsons (during its golden era), King of the Hill, The Office, and Parks and Recreation! So I keep an eye on his newer projects, just in case they end up as defining elements of pop culture for the next decade.

Similarly, past collaborators like Mike Judge (Beavis and Butthead, Office Space, Silicon Valley), Michael Schur (Brooklyn Nine-Nine, The Good Place), Bill Oakley+Josh Weinstein (Mission Hill), give a great way to branch into similar-ish content, especially when paired with ratings, filters, etc. like you have here. I already sometimes go wandering through imdb or Rotten Tomatoes for exactly this kind of information, to build up "family trees" of co-creators+writers of the best stuff, so tools to enable that would be awesome.

Why do people take that site seriously? Just look at its name - "Rotten Tomatoes". It was always meant to be a parody website, not for actual reviews.