Movie Streaming Site with API question

[georgetoons]

Hi BHW fam,

So I am planning on starting a movie streaming site using an api which will automatically add a bunch of movies to my site, my question is, atm my web hosting plan has 25gb of space, how much will I need to make sure the site isnt slow, will it be enough seeing as the movie will be hosted elsewhere or will it still take a lot of space?

Thank you in advance

 

[Steptoe]

Most, if not all such APIs will give you movies that are hosted elsewhere and with no connection to your site. There's no real reason for you to want to host the files locally - that will open up a bigger can of worms. 25GB of space should be fine for the site's html, css, js and image files, and I can't imagine your database using up that much space.

 

[georgetoons]

Most, if not all such APIs will give you movies that are hosted elsewhere and with no connection to your site. There's no real reason for you to want to host the files locally - that will open up a bigger can of worms. 25GB of space should be fine for the site's html, css, js and image files, and I can't imagine your database using up that much space.

Awesome! Thank you for the quick reply brother!

 

[$hitCanBeer]

You may want 100GB just for signups if you are doing that, and cached pictures and such. If you can have the API of another site directly then I would say 50GB for incidentals.

 

[georgetoons]

You may want 100GB just for signups if you are doing that, and cached pictures and such. If you can have the API of another site directly then I would say 50GB for incidentals.

I got it done surprisingly with 25gb of space and it is still fast, now I am trying to set up the ads that pop up when people click on movies but having some trouble, if anyone has some experience with the psyplay wordpress theme please let me know!

 

[remeser779]

You should be fine! And you can always upgrade it later

What exactly is the problem with the pop up? You may put it up in the header(check in the theme if their is somewhere for ads, or somewhere specific to the header) otherwise can't help you precisly don't know that theme

 

[remeser779]

Side note: There is now vidsrc[dot]to that seems to offer movies/series API, it is apparently linked to Fmovies(the link is here from fmovies)

 

[zakservers]

Actually yes, it will be enough, though you can keep an eye on your storage usage, and once it start touching beyond 20GB, that would also mean that your website is doing very good, then you should move your website to a VPS or a dedicated server with 100 or 200GB space, that will keep the performance high as needed.

 

[Deleted member 1232083]

If you are not hosting the movies in your server , you will be fine.

 

[SeasonedCode]

like what Steptoe said
when you use almost any API you don't need to host the data on your server
but you are fetching the data from the API itself
the API provider who has the data and you are accessing an endpoint to fetch the data you want
so yeah this was just a small explanation on top of what Sreptoe said

 

[seogirl19]

With using API you will get movie details from IMDB but where do you get streaming links?
Manually adding streaming link is very hard.

 

[remeser779]

With using API you will get movie details from IMDB but where do you get streaming links?
Manually adding streaming link is very hard.

You should use the API to automate this but that would require dev, or some may provide plugin.

https:// github.com/sizzlingkenny/filmato-2embed-movie-script-php

The API 2embed apparently provide a free script

 

[bxxtarri]

hello bro, please can you pm me your site sample, i want to start a movie streaming site.

 

[JohnDoe333]

I have found a new API without ads called https://vidsrc.pro/ . Vidsrc.me and 2embed API have lot of ads on player. This vidsrc.pro looks promising.

 

[georgetoons]

I have found a new API without ads called https://vidsrc.pro/ . Vidsrc.me and 2embed API have lot of ads on player. This vidsrc.pro looks promising.

Wow! Thats awesome, do you know why they provide it without ads? what do they gain? and also are they trustworthy for me to change all my movie links to theres? Or will there be server downtime etc

 

[remeser779]

Wow! Thats awesome, do you know why they provide it without ads? what do they gain? and also are they trustworthy for me to change all my movie links to theres? Or will there be server downtime etc

Maybe at the start to gain more people but they'll probably put ads on at some point.
It's difficult to know the site is quite knew, domain registered on 2023-10-16 so who know if they're here for the long term or not

 

[JohnDoe333]

Wow! Thats awesome, do you know why they provide it without ads? what do they gain? and also are they trustworthy for me to change all my movie links to theres? Or will there be server downtime etc

I dont know man. I found it in github. some guy shared it and to me it looks stable and nice. I guess you have nothing to loose in trying. you can always rollback to those vidsrc.me , 2mbed and other apis later. All they do is scrape torrent sites and stream it.

 

[incognitobarks]

I have found a new API without ads called https://vidsrc.pro/ . Vidsrc.me and 2embed API have lot of ads on player. This vidsrc.pro looks promising.

can you find something similar for a sports website like buffstreams or vipbox

 

[nomi42]

like what Steptoe said
when you use almost any API you don't need to host the data on your server
but you are fetching the data from the API itself
the API provider who has the data and you are accessing an endpoint to fetch the data you want
so yeah this was just a small explanation on top of what Sreptoe said

can you suggest any api provider for streaming

 

[StereotypicalNerd]

i used to work with 2embed api but it doesnt seem to work anymore