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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Reply by angelxmoreno
on March 4, 2013 at 2:08 AM
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.
Reply by stawadia
on March 4, 2013 at 12:38 PM
@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.
Reply by angelxmoreno
on March 4, 2013 at 1:29 PM
@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.
Reply by boomkap
on March 8, 2013 at 11:43 AM
@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?
Reply by Travis Bell
on March 8, 2013 at 12:39 PM
There is no way with the API. You would simply have to grab every movie ID and process your query locally.
Reply by boomkap
on March 8, 2013 at 2:34 PM
The question is how do I get a list of the ID's?
Reply by Travis Bell
on March 8, 2013 at 3:17 PM
Hi boomkap,
Start at 1 and go until the last id found in the latest movie method.
Reply by boomkap
on March 8, 2013 at 3:23 PM
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.
Reply by stawadia
on March 8, 2013 at 3:44 PM
@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,...
Reply by boomkap
on March 8, 2013 at 3:55 PM
@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.
Reply by Travis Bell
on March 8, 2013 at 3:56 PM
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.
Reply by boomkap
on March 8, 2013 at 4:03 PM
Thanks.
Reply by stawadia
on March 8, 2013 at 4:07 PM
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.
Reply by gochinj
on March 14, 2013 at 10:45 PM
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.
Reply by angelxmoreno
on April 19, 2013 at 6:54 PM
@gochinj I tried this and found that not all movies are in the list of movies returned by genre list.