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Netflix Queue Sorter

By Maarten — Last update Jul 7, 2011 — Installed 35,619 times.

Sort Instant Queue by Expiration date

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Oct 22, 2009 3:26pm Alan Lan User	It would be great if I could sort the Instant Watch queue by expiration date. Currently I use http://feedfliks.com to see the expiration dates for all Instant Watch items and then manually sort my queue. And if a bunch of things renew at once (expiration date is extended) it's annoying to have to resort manually.

Oct 31, 2009 3:30am Maarten Script's Author	Hi Alan, You mean the "Sort by Availability" button on the Instant Queue (above the Notes column) does not work as you expect? Maarten

Nov 22, 2009 11:17pm jobo1 User	Does the availability sort work if there's no dates in the notes column? I don't see that it's changing the order of any movies in my instant queue?

Nov 22, 2009 11:25pm jobo1 User	Guess I found the answer "The sort order for the instant queue is: limited availability on top, the rest below." So the answer is it only shows those movies that are about to no longer be available. The first post is asking that the availability of all movies, not just limited availability, be sortable. The site mentioned and this one http://www.thenowhereman.com/netflix/ both list the available until date for every single instant watch movie on Netflix. It'd be a nice feature. There's a ton of movies that expire Dec. 31 and Jan 1. It'd be nice to sort those to the top long before Netflix posts the date in the Notes field.

Nov 27, 2009 4:02am Maarten Script's Author	Thanks, jobo1, I understand what you both mean now! The script currently just uses whatever is indicated in the Netflix queue itself. I could probably do this but it'll be slow (like sorting by time) as I'd have to get the availability for each movie one-by-one. Maybe the Netflix API lets me get this info; I'll have to take a look to see if that is possible. Thanks for the suggestion, I've put it on my to-do list for now.

May 16, 2011 4:37pm Schmye Bubbula User	Sorting my Netflix streaming queue by expiration date is the sole reason I installed Netflix Queue Sorter and Greasemonkey in the first place, and I was sorely disappointed that it's the only thing I CAN'T do. Aaarrrggghhh! I don't care how slow it would be; I hope you'll get around to it soon. Thanks!

Sep 20, 2011 2:37am Schmye Bubbula User	Just installed v2.8 and still sorely miss the ability to sort by expiration date. It's the single most needed sort key imaginable! It would be worth whatever extra time it takes to run. Please, I'm begging you!

Jan 27, 2012 1:51am somercamb User	the sort by availability is not working

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