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Search for movies by keywords (text) or overview
posted by cristiandouceSTAFFMOD on February 25, 2013 at 1:23 PM
If you search for "Iron Man", for example, you get a response with a list of iron man movies for results. But if you add another word to the query, let's say, "Stark", then the response shows no results at all.
Is there a method I'm missing allowing to search for movies by title+overview+keywords? or al least 2 of those?
Reply by Travis Bell
on February 25, 2013 at 3:57 PM
Hi cristiandouce,
At this time there is not. For movies, the only searchable fields are the title fields.
Reply by cristiandouce
on February 25, 2013 at 4:01 PM
Ok, well then I introduce the second issue. Why while "Iron Man" returns results, "Iron Man Stark" doesn't? How many missing words does the search method accept?
Reply by Travis Bell
on February 25, 2013 at 4:39 PM
What movie are you specifically looking for?
Probably not many (in fact, zero in most cases), we put way more focus on ngram searches than "phrase" searches.
Reply by Saravana Kumar Putta Selvaraj
on May 8, 2016 at 3:13 AM
Hi guys can you send the me the url how to search for a movie with keywords. url example for iron man