- As a user is browsing movies / shows on an OTT platform's website, this extension scrapes the web page to identify the movies / shows being shown to the user
- Once the movies / shows on the web page have been identified, their IMDB rating and related information is retrieved via a web request to a third-party, and the ratings are displayed to the user next to the movie tile.
- The extension sends a movie's title and year of release to omdbapi.com, which is an API service providing movie ratings from IMDB and similar providers. omdbapi.com sends the IMDB rating (and some related info) back