Netflix is shutting down public API support for third-party developers

Hot on the heels of a new logo and look for its website, Netflix making some big behind-the-scenes changes too. Today the company sent out notice to third-party developers who are still using its long-available public API, saying it was shutting the option down come November 14th — just five months from now. That letter, written by Netflix’s VP of Edge engineering Daniel Jacobson and spotted by TechCrunch, says the decision was made to “better focus our efforts and to align them with the needs of our global member base.” Jacobson added that any existing services that were still using the public API after access was shut down would get 404 errors.