Search Netflix using API without the user being logged in?

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Published on 2010-03-31T11:50:35Z Indexed on 2010/03/31 11:53 UTC
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I'm trying to search Netflix through their API, but without logging anyone in (because I want to do this on the back-end, not necessarily related to any user action). I'm just starting off with their API so please forgive me if I'm doing something completely stupid. Here's the URL I'm trying to access:

http://api.netflix.com/catalog/titles/?oauth_consumer_key=MY_CONSUMER_KEY&oauth_token_secret=MY_SECRET&term=fight+club

However, that gives me a 400 Bad Request error. Is there no way to browse/search the Netflix catalog without having a user first sign in to my application? Or am I doing something wrong?

Note: I'm accessing said URL through my browser, since I only want to perform a GET request, which is what a browser does by default.

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