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
¿No encuentras una película o serie? Inicia sesión para crearla:
¿Quieres puntuar o añadir este elemento a una lista?
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Contestado por angelxmoreno
el 4 de marzo de 2013 a las 02:08
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.
Contestado por stawadia
el 4 de marzo de 2013 a las 12:38
@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.
Contestado por angelxmoreno
el 4 de marzo de 2013 a las 13:29
@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.
Contestado por boomkap
el 8 de marzo de 2013 a las 11:43
@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?
Contestado por Travis Bell
el 8 de marzo de 2013 a las 12:39
There is no way with the API. You would simply have to grab every movie ID and process your query locally.
Contestado por boomkap
el 8 de marzo de 2013 a las 14:34
The question is how do I get a list of the ID's?
Contestado por Travis Bell
el 8 de marzo de 2013 a las 15:17
Hi boomkap,
Start at 1 and go until the last id found in the latest movie method.
Contestado por boomkap
el 8 de marzo de 2013 a las 15:23
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.
Contestado por stawadia
el 8 de marzo de 2013 a las 15:44
@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,...
Contestado por boomkap
el 8 de marzo de 2013 a las 15:55
@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.
Contestado por Travis Bell
el 8 de marzo de 2013 a las 15:56
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.
Contestado por boomkap
el 8 de marzo de 2013 a las 16:03
Thanks.
Contestado por stawadia
el 8 de marzo de 2013 a las 16:07
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.
Contestado por gochinj
el 14 de marzo de 2013 a las 22:45
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.
Contestado por angelxmoreno
el 19 de abril de 2013 a las 18:54
@gochinj I tried this and found that not all movies are in the list of movies returned by genre list.