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Multiple Movies in one api call?
posted by jeffAwesomeSTAFFMOD on March 28, 2013 at 11:36 PM
Is there a way I can that I can call multiple movies in one api call? This would save me the need to call several movies for a person on page load.
Reply by Travis Bell
on March 29, 2013 at 12:28 PM
Hi Jeff,
No, this is not possible.
Reply by jeffAwesome
on March 30, 2013 at 12:36 AM
Travis,
What would be an alternative solution? I want to create "watchlists" I know a user can create a list but they have to be registered with moviedb and I don't think I can get a user to log into the moviedb and then come back to my site.
Right now my idea was to just save the moviedb movie ids into a database and then when the user is trying to retrieve them call the respective movies through an api call. Will I need to do this 1 at a time?
Reply by SeenIt
on March 30, 2013 at 5:48 AM
You should probably save a little more data than just the IDs in your database. (i.e. title, poster, and other key data) Then you can retrieve more data about a specific movie if the user want to know more.