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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Svar af angelxmoreno
d. 4 marts 2013 kl. 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.
Svar af stawadia
d. 4 marts 2013 kl. 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.
Svar af angelxmoreno
d. 4 marts 2013 kl. 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.
Svar af boomkap
d. 8 marts 2013 kl. 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?
Svar af Travis Bell
d. 8 marts 2013 kl. 12:39 PM
There is no way with the API. You would simply have to grab every movie ID and process your query locally.
Svar af boomkap
d. 8 marts 2013 kl. 2:34 PM
The question is how do I get a list of the ID's?
Svar af Travis Bell
d. 8 marts 2013 kl. 3:17 PM
Hi boomkap,
Start at 1 and go until the last id found in the latest movie method.
Svar af boomkap
d. 8 marts 2013 kl. 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.
Svar af stawadia
d. 8 marts 2013 kl. 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,...
Svar af boomkap
d. 8 marts 2013 kl. 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.
Svar af Travis Bell
d. 8 marts 2013 kl. 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.
Svar af boomkap
d. 8 marts 2013 kl. 4:03 PM
Thanks.
Svar af stawadia
d. 8 marts 2013 kl. 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.
Svar af gochinj
d. 14 marts 2013 kl. 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.
Svar af angelxmoreno
d. 19 april 2013 kl. 6:54 PM
@gochinj I tried this and found that not all movies are in the list of movies returned by genre list.