A subscription that also sells music and audiobooks is not one catalogue. Four media types in one table means four sets of fields mostly empty.
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ScrapeIt runs the collection as a managed service. You name the media types, sections or the full catalogue; we build a schema per media type, carry offer tier on every row, separate catch-up from the permanent library, and hand back CSV, JSON, Excel or a push into your warehouse.
Where bundle changes or catalogue turnover matter we run repeat collection and keep every observation, since a tier change leaves no record of itself.
We collect published metadata only - never streams, never anything behind a sign in, no viewer or listener data - and pace requests. That is publicly available data only - everything a visitor can see on RTL+ - and we collect it legally.
Media type is the first field on every row and it determines which of the others are populated, because pretending otherwise produces a schema nobody can query.
Video records carry the title, original title, content type, genre, release year, duration, maturity rating, synopsis, series and episode identifiers, originating channel and any availability window.
Audio records are typed to their kind: tracks with artist, album and duration; audiobooks with author, narrator, publisher and total running time; podcast episodes with show, episode number and publication date.
Offer type is carried where the service distinguishes free, included and premium tiers, since the bundle has several levels and a title's tier is part of what it is.
Every row carries the collection timestamp and the section it came from, so a figure can be traced back and a media type can be audited rather than trusted.
Bundle structure analysis is the distinctive output: how much of each media type sits in each tier, and how that has changed. For anyone studying how broadcasters compete against pure play subscription services, the shape of the bundle is the strategy, and it is visible in the catalogue.
Local production share by genre answers how much is German commissioning versus imported, which matters for quota research and for anyone tracking European content investment.
Catch-up turnover, kept separate from the permanent library, shows what goes on demand after transmission and for how long.
Cross service comparison usually follows, and it is where the media typing pays off: the video catalogue compares against video services, the audiobook catalogue against audiobook services, and neither comparison is possible from a merged table.
Limits are as everywhere here. Metadata only, never content or streams, nothing behind a sign in, no listener or viewer data.
RTL+ is the streaming service of RTL Deutschland, the country's largest commercial broadcaster. It began as video on demand and became a bundle: series and films, live channels, music, audiobooks and podcasts under a single subscription.
For a data project that bundling is the defining fact. A series episode, a music track, an audiobook and a podcast episode have different identifying fields, different duration semantics and different rights. A track has an artist and an album; an audiobook has an author, a narrator and a publisher; a podcast episode has a show, a number and a publication date; an episode has a series and a season. One table for all four is mostly empty cells.
The video catalogue itself carries the familiar broadcaster mix: originals, licensed material and catch-up from the RTL channels, with the catch-up portion carrying availability windows while the rest does not.
Catalogue sections respond directly with substantial content - titles, genres, release years, durations, maturity ratings and synopses, and on the audio side artists, authors, narrators and shows - all visible to any visitor.
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Full plan detailsThe instinct is to treat this as a video service that happens to include extras, and it produces a dataset that is wrong about the majority of what the service sells.
The audio side is not an accessory. Audiobooks and podcasts are a substantial part of the offering, with their own catalogue, their own rights and their own competitive set, and they are compared against audiobook services rather than against streaming video. A dataset that flattens them into a video schema cannot support that comparison at all.
The second reason is that duration means different things. Two hours of film, two hours of audiobook and two hours of podcast are not comparable quantities, and an aggregate that sums them is arithmetic without meaning.
The third is the catch-up layer, familiar from any broadcaster service: part of the video catalogue is temporary and part is permanent, and counting them together hides the turnover.
The fourth is that this is the largest commercial broadcaster in a big European market, which makes it one of the better single windows onto German commercial content - local production, genre mix and how a broadcaster structures a bundle against subscription competitors.
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ScrapeIt is a managed extraction company, not a tool you have to learn. Our team builds the pipeline, watches it as the bundle gains and loses media types, and repairs it before a tier record develops a gap.
You see a sample first, in your format, over the media types you actually track, typed separately so you can judge on real titles whether the structure fits what you plan to ask.
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Yes, and it is a common scope. We will still type it properly and tell you what the audio side contains, because a comparison against subscription competitors usually turns out to need the bundle shape rather than just the video list.
Because their identifying fields differ - author, narrator and publisher for one, show, episode number and publication date for the other - and because they compete against audiobook and podcast services rather than against streaming video. A video schema cannot support that comparison.
Per media type, yes. Across them, we would rather not: two hours of film, audiobook and podcast are not comparable quantities and the sum is arithmetic without meaning. We deliver the components so you can aggregate deliberately.
Part of the video catalogue does, and we record its window where published while keeping it separate from the permanent library. Counted together they inflate catalogue size and hide the turnover.
No. Metadata only, nothing behind a sign in, no viewer or listener data of any kind. The catalogue analysis these projects need contains none of it.
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Our specialists configure the crawlers and extract a sample dataset for your review before proceeding with the full-scale extraction.
Once you approve the sample, we launch the project and start full data collection. We gather, filter, and structure the data for easy use, delivering it on time in your preferred format.
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