Programmatically get movie name from hulu url?

Question

I am using JavaScript.

Is there any programmatic way to fetch the movie name from a hulu url?

For example for the url

https://www.hulu.com/watch/78974b54-1feb-43ce-9a99-1c1e9e5fce3f

The response should be

My Favorite Girlfriend

The URL itself is just a uuid. I tried to fetch the page and look at the http response headers, html meta tag, but there is nothing useful.

Answer 1

Looking at the document returned from that URL there is a script tag that contains the information you need:

<script type="application/ld+json"> 
   {"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Movie","name":"My Favorite Girlfriend","description":"A chef's life gets complicated when he falls for a beautiful young woman who has multiple personalities.",
...
</script>

Using the npm package cheerio and some javascript to parse this:

const cheerio = require('cheerio');

const getMovieName = async (url) => {

    const htmlContent = await (await fetch(url)).text();

    // Load the HTML content into cheerio
    const $ = cheerio.load(htmlContent);

    // Find the script element with type "application/ld+json"
    const scriptElement = $('script[type="application/ld+json"]').first();

    if (scriptElement) {
        try {
            // Parse the JSON content
            const jsonData = JSON.parse(scriptElement.html());

            // Access the parsed data
            console.log(jsonData.name);
            return jsonData.name;

            // You can access other properties as well
            // For example: jsonData['@context'], jsonData['@type']
        } catch (error) {
            console.error('Error parsing JSON:', error);
        }
    } else {
        console.error('Script element not found');
    }
}

getMovieName("https://www.hulu.com/watch/78974b54-1feb-43ce-9a99-1c1e9e5fce3f")