excuse the naivety, but how do i download a data set of all movies of lets say the last 10 years, i do have the api key, just not sure how to use it to generate results
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angelxmoreno Erabiltzailearen Erantzuna
Martxoa 4, 2013 egunean 2:08 AM(e)tan
I take it you are not a programmer. Since this is the forum for support of the API, not a "How to program" forum, I would suggest using a site like StackOverflow and as your question there.
stawadia Erabiltzailearen Erantzuna
Martxoa 4, 2013 egunean 12:38 PM(e)tan
@angelxmoreno I take it you are not the best reader of posts.
I'm a programmer, thank you very much. Travis Bell has somewhat pointed me in the right direction. It's 1 movie per request and I was asking whether the api has an alternate method to get all movies in one request.
angelxmoreno Erabiltzailearen Erantzuna
Martxoa 4, 2013 egunean 1:29 PM(e)tan
@stawadia my sincerest apologies. I was stuck on the last sentence " just not sure how to use it to generate results". I took it as you needing a walk-through on curl or something of that nature. I am glad you were able to find a solution to your problem.
boomkap Erabiltzailearen Erantzuna
Martxoa 8, 2013 egunean 11:43 AM(e)tan
@stawadia I have a similar need to download a movie list for lets say the last 10 years or so. How were you able to get to this?
Travis Bell Erabiltzailearen Erantzuna
Martxoa 8, 2013 egunean 12:39 PM(e)tan
There is no way with the API. You would simply have to grab every movie ID and process your query locally.
boomkap Erabiltzailearen Erantzuna
Martxoa 8, 2013 egunean 2:34 PM(e)tan
The question is how do I get a list of the ID's?
Travis Bell Erabiltzailearen Erantzuna
Martxoa 8, 2013 egunean 3:17 PM(e)tan
Hi boomkap,
Start at 1 and go until the last id found in the latest movie method.
boomkap Erabiltzailearen Erantzuna
Martxoa 8, 2013 egunean 3:23 PM(e)tan
Ok. So its just serial starting from 1. Is it safe to assume that as a new movie get added to your catalog, the number just increments by 1. Are there range gaps that I should be aware of?
Thanks.
stawadia Erabiltzailearen Erantzuna
Martxoa 8, 2013 egunean 3:44 PM(e)tan
@boomkap There is no short cut for what you want to get. I tried using the genre list but the all the movie attributes are still on the movie method
http://api.themoviedb.org/3/genre/28,10759,...
boomkap Erabiltzailearen Erantzuna
Martxoa 8, 2013 egunean 3:55 PM(e)tan
@stawdia I really am only looking for the Movie Titles with the corresponding id's. I do not need the movie attributes et al. But I do understand what you are saying. I guess it's just knowing that the numbers are serial starting from 1 upwards. I should be prepared for gaps.
Travis Bell Erabiltzailearen Erantzuna
Martxoa 8, 2013 egunean 3:56 PM(e)tan
Yes.
Yes.
Not specifically but as movies have been deleted over the years there's many, many missing ids. These will 404 on the API.
boomkap Erabiltzailearen Erantzuna
Martxoa 8, 2013 egunean 4:03 PM(e)tan
Thanks.
stawadia Erabiltzailearen Erantzuna
Martxoa 8, 2013 egunean 4:07 PM(e)tan
There is a limit of 30 rqsts per 10 seconds, but writing a program to issue the API request by incrementing the id by 1 might do the trick. Exception handling for 404 will be needed.
gochinj Erabiltzailearen Erantzuna
Martxoa 14, 2013 egunean 10:45 PM(e)tan
Use the API to get the list of Genres. Then get the Movies associated with each Genre by Genre ID. Once you have the Movie data you can use the API to mine the rest of the data as needed movie by movie; Cast and Crew for example.
angelxmoreno Erabiltzailearen Erantzuna
Apirila 19, 2013 egunean 6:54 PM(e)tan
@gochinj I tried this and found that not all movies are in the list of movies returned by genre list.