Streaming Buddy

**Judgement:** Streaming Buddy is a well-designed, feature-rich personal streaming assistant that offers strong functionality for search, tracking, and personalized recommendations, especially for users willing to set up a TMDB API key and maintain a persistent workspace. **Strengths:** - Covers the full lifecycle: discover → decide where to watch → track progress → rate → learn → recommend. - Uses structured learning from ratings and explicit likes/dislikes to refine preferences by genre, theme, actors, and directors. - Supports mood-based discovery and multi-service availability checks, plus watchlist/history/profile views. - Language and region awareness via config, making it adaptable for different locales. **Key Risks / Limitations:** - Depends on external APIs (TMDB and availability data); downtime, rate limits, or API changes can degrade search and recommendation quality. - Requires manual setup of `config.json` with a TMDB API key and correct region/language, plus `jq`, `curl`, and bash ≥4.0, which may be a barrier for non-technical setups. - No explicit content rating filters or parental controls; recommendations may surface violent or adult content if the user’s taste leans that way. - File-based JSON state in `$WORKSPACE` can be corrupted or become inconsistent if edited manually or if concurrent access occurs. **Recommended Scenarios:** - Users who frequently ask for movie/series suggestions, including mood-based requests (e.g., “something exciting”, “relaxing comedy”) and want the system to improve over time. - Sessions that involve tracking what the user is currently watching, updating episode progress, and maintaining a long-term watchlist/history. - Multi-service households where knowing what’s available on Netflix/Prime/Disney+/Apple TV+ (and others) is important for deciding what to watch. - Use as a specialized, persistent recommendation layer that the assistant can call whenever the conversation involves movies, TV shows, or streaming-service choices.