When the WWE Network version 2 was launched in July 2019, all the previous video links were rendered invalid. This database tries to provide a mapping from the old links to the new ones, to help site owners with deep links to migrate their pages.
When the WWE Network version 3 was launched in August 2023, they again rendered all old video links invalid. I then updated the mapping to provide links from both version 1 and version 2 to the version 3 links.
In January 2025, Netflix aquired all the assets of WWE Network where I live. The WWE Network links are still active for the territories where the Network is still live, but there is no transfer to Netflix for me, so I added another map. Not all videos seem to be transferred to Netflix, some might show up later, but some are on YouTube, so there is a column for those as well.
The list is far from complete, it only contains the events that I had linked in my database. Additions are welcome.
The Netflix index is missing entries. Help welcome.
The mapping file is a simple comma-separated file, where the first line contains a header.
The fields are as follows:
- Version 1 ID. This is just the numerical ID, the initial link part
(often
http://network.wwe.com/video/v) is omitted. - Version 2 ID. This is with the prefix
(
https://watch.wwe.com/episode/) omitted. If starting with a /, relative tohttps://watch.wwe.com/. - Promotion (WWE, WCW, ECW, NXT, NXT UK)
- Year.
- Event title.
- Version 3 ID. This is with the prefix
(
https://network.wwe.com/video/) omitted. The name part after the second slash is optional (if included). - Netflix ID. This is with the prefix
(
https://www.netflix.com/watch/) omitted. - YouTube ID. This is with the prefix
(
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=) ommitted.
Fields contain - if the video does not exist in that index,
or if I do not have the version ID available.
The script rewritehtml.perl can be used to rewrite links in HTML pages.
Run it from the database directory and pass the names of the files you wish
to rewrite as parameters. It will update all known links, leaving any
links not mapped in the database alone.
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Peter Krefting [email protected]