If you're using our movie watch list functionality, you can use the /movie/account_status method to quickly check on the rating, watchlist and favourite status of any movie.

If you're manually building a list, there isn't much you can do except check to see if the ID is already part of the list.

How would you check if the id is in the list? I mean you don't even know how many pages is in the list.

Ya, there's a few things to mention:

1. There should be the pagination info (item_count, item_pages, current_page, total_pages) delivered in this result.
2. Pagination should work, which it looks like it's not. This method was re-written last week and it looks like I missed that.
3. If you're requiring a TMDb session anyways, you still might find using our official "watchlist" feature to be better. You can sort the results and when users log in, there's already a list within every account called "Personal watchlist". Creating a second watchlist is kind of confusing, isn't it? There's also the existing feature of being able to check on the status of a movie with this (as mentioned above). Basically, it does everything you want.

I've created a new ticket for this and will look into this week.

Oh interesting, thanks for the info.

Well yeah I'm using the default watchlist, but I also have a "seen list" for movies that the user has seen. As I optimize for speed rating each movie in order to mark them as seen is not desired.

Ya, ok. I get where you are coming from better now.

Back to your first post, it was indeed one of the intentions of the "rated" list. Rated == seen.

If that's not an assumption you want to use, the only option you have is to use a list, which is what you are already doing. Once pagination is hooked up you can up zip through each page and check for an ID.

I'll have to think about whether having a way to query a list for an id makes sense.

Cool :-) Thank you very much. Are you the lead dev or something?

Cool :-) Thank you very much.

No problem.

Are you the lead dev or something?

Founder and lead developer, yes.

Then thanks a million :) it's a very nice project. I have some pain points with it though, but I don't suppose this is the best place to talk about that :)

But if you would ever like some feedback and an awful lot of admiration please guide me to a more appropriate venue for such talks.

The general forum is as good as any place for feedback. Unless you want to email me, which is fine too, travis [at] themoviedb.org.

Cheers.

Hey Andreas,

You'll be interested to see this: http://docs.themoviedb.apiary.io/#get-%2F3%2Flist%2F%7Bid%7D%2Fitem_status

Cheers.