In a market with content quotas, where a programme was made is not trivia. It is a regulated category and the broadcaster publishes it.
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ScrapeIt runs the collection as a managed service. You name the languages, genres or the full catalogue; we build the pipeline with origin, language and tier as fields and series structure intact, and hand back CSV, JSON, Excel or a push into your warehouse.
Where turnover matters we run repeat collection and keep every observation, since a title that has left leaves no trace of having been there.
We collect published metadata only - never streams, never anything behind a sign in, no viewer data. We use the published sitemaps for discovery and pace requests. Everything we collect is publicly available - what any visitor can see on CBC Gem - and we collect it legally.
Title records carry the title, original title, content type, genre, language, production country where published, release year, season and episode structure, description, maturity rating and availability tier.
Language and production origin are first class fields. In a bilingual public broadcaster operating under content rules, they are the two axes along which every interesting question is asked, and recovering them later from title text is guesswork.
Availability tier is recorded because the service has free and premium levels, and a catalogue that does not say which tier a title sits in cannot answer what a viewer gets without paying - usually the first question asked of a public broadcaster's streaming service.
Series structure is preserved as a hierarchy rather than flattened, so completeness and ordering questions stay answerable.
Every row carries the collection timestamp and, where repeat collection shows a change, the date a title appeared or disappeared.
Domestic content share analysis is the output that makes this source distinctive: the proportion of Canadian production by genre, language and tier, tracked over time. It is directly relevant to policy research and to producers arguing about commissioning.
Turnover analysis separates the standing catalogue from acquired content that rotates, which is only visible with repeat collection and is what tells you how much of the service is durable.
Bilingual comparison - how the English and French catalogues differ in size, genre and originals share - is a question about a national broadcaster that few datasets can answer.
Limits: metadata only, never streams, nothing behind a sign in and no viewer data. Playback is geo-restricted to Canada and that is the broadcaster's restriction to enforce, not ours to work around.
CBC Gem is the streaming service of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, carrying the public broadcaster's television programming, originals, documentaries, news and acquired content, with both free and premium tiers.
Canada regulates domestic content in broadcasting, and that regulatory context makes this catalogue unusually informative. Where a programme was produced, and whether it qualifies as Canadian content, is not a stylistic detail here - it is a category with consequences, and it shows in what a public broadcaster commissions and carries.
The corporation is also bilingual, operating in English and French with a separate service for the French market. A catalogue collected without language as a field flattens two distinct commissioning worlds into one list.
Show and catalogue sections respond directly, with a sitemap index published for discovery. Playback is geo-restricted to Canada; the metadata is not.
Delivery: CSV, JSON or XLSX files, our API or a JSON feed. MCP server on request.
Full plan detailsA catalogue list from a public broadcaster looks like a modest dataset until the regulatory context is applied, at which point it becomes one of the more informative sources about a national media system.
Content origin is the reason. In a market with domestic content requirements, the share of Canadian production in a public broadcaster's streaming catalogue is a measurable fact about how the system is working. Researchers, policy bodies and producers all want it and it requires origin to have been collected as a field rather than inferred.
Language is the second axis. English and French commissioning differ in volume, genre mix and budget, and a combined catalogue count tells you about neither. Collected separately, the comparison is direct.
The third reason is the free and premium split. For a publicly funded broadcaster, what sits behind a paywall is a question with a political dimension as well as a commercial one, and the tier field answers it.
The fourth is turnover. Acquired content arrives and leaves as licences change, and distinguishing the permanent commissioned catalogue from the rotating acquired one needs repeat collection - a snapshot cannot tell them apart.
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ScrapeIt is a managed extraction company, not a tool you have to learn. Our team builds the pipeline, follows the published sitemaps as titles are added, and repairs the collector before a turnover record develops a gap.
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Because Canada regulates domestic content, so origin is a category with consequences rather than trivia. The share of Canadian production in a public broadcaster's catalogue is a measurable fact about how the system works, and it has to be collected as a field rather than inferred later.
Because they are distinct commissioning worlds with different volume, genre mix and budgets. A combined catalogue count describes neither, and the comparison between them is one of the more interesting things this source supports.
Yes, and for a publicly funded broadcaster it carries a political dimension as well as a commercial one. The tier field answers what a viewer gets without paying, which is usually the first question asked of this kind of service.
Largely, and turnover is the tell: acquired content rotates as licences change while commissioned content stays. Distinguishing them needs repeat collection - a single snapshot cannot separate the two.
No, because we collect metadata rather than streams. The geo-restriction is on playback and it is the broadcaster's to enforce, not ours to work around. Titles, descriptions, origin and tier are published openly.
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