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Search returns empty results (Russian letters)
posted by fedorzimaSTAFFMOD on May 4, 2013 at 6:58 AM
Hi all,
I'm trying to get result by http://api.themoviedb.org/3/search/movie?api_key=[API]&query=%D0%B2%D1%8B%D0%BA%D1%80%D1%83%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%8B
No results. ...but it worked before.
However it works here http://www.themoviedb.org/search?query=%D0%B2%D1%8B%D0%BA%D1%80%D1%83%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%8B#0
Thank you, any assistance will be greatly appreciated.
Reply by Travis Bell
on May 4, 2013 at 11:22 AM
Hi fedorzima,
This is a currently known issue. I'm in the middle of completely re-writing search and when this goes live, all non English character searches will start working again.
Reply by fedorzima
on May 5, 2013 at 4:40 AM
OK, thank you!
Reply by agcisco
on May 6, 2013 at 7:04 AM
Mr. Bell, could you pls also add possibility to search long named titles in Russian? 'cause in previous version of search (when it worked) we had to shorten film's title, throwing last one or two words, to get normal search result via API. i.e. if I had file name "Гарри Поттер и философский камень" - I had no matching via API search, so I had to shorten file's name to "Гарри Поттер и философский" to get film's matching...
Reply by Travis Bell
on May 8, 2013 at 3:33 PM
Can you give this a try now? Should be working as expected.
Reply by fedorzima
on May 10, 2013 at 6:01 AM
It seems now search works fine. BTW It's OK if I enter "matri" and not getting results?
Reply by agcisco
on May 10, 2013 at 7:43 AM
Confirm, works fine, including long named Russian titles, thank you... Except one thing, if you have 2 films with same title, namely "Anna Karenina", you are getting only one added to media library, even if you add production year to title...
Reply by Travis Bell
on May 10, 2013 at 9:18 AM
If you're referring to partial word matching, check the API docs and read up about the new
search_typeparameter. You'll want to use ngram searching.How are you entering the year? With the
?year=parameter?Original query (has both)
Query to find the first one:
Query to find the second one:
Cheers.
Reply by fedorzima
on May 15, 2013 at 7:13 AM
Thank you :-)
Reply by fxzuz
on May 25, 2013 at 3:29 AM
Hi there!
I will try to get info about this person on English and Russian language, but got different results.
English http://api.themoviedb.org/3/search/person?api_key=XXX&query=Sergey%20Bodrov
Russian http://api.themoviedb.org/3/search/person?api_key=XXX&query=%D0%A1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%B9%20%D0%91%D0%BE%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2
Reply by Travis Bell
on May 27, 2013 at 11:24 AM
We don't support translating English to Russian, or vice versa. Whatever content is added as a name to a person is what you can search for.
You could get around this once I hook up the "also known as" feature on people. Once that works, you could add both names to a person and find them in either Russian or English.