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		_d4od on Nov 22, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: What APIs do you wish existed? Local movie times. It's stupid this isn't available from someone. The only thing it's going to do is increase the number of people going to see a movie. Maybe there's one now but 3 years ago there wasn't one and I had to build a scraper for Yahoo movies to build the product I wanted.

jodrellblank on Nov 22, 2009 [–]

There's one for the iPhone http://code.google.com/p/metasyntactic/wiki/NowPlaying

(From a Microsoft C# compiler/parser guy, no less).

sid0 on Nov 22, 2009 | [–]

Meta's an ex-Microsoftie -- he's currently at Google.

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