The Movie Database Support
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Query for multiple movies ids with a comma separated list?
posted by rustybaileySTAFFMOD on August 11, 2013 at 9:23 ก่อนเที่ยง
Is there a way to return data for multiple movie ids? I am trying to do something like this: http://api.themoviedb.org/3/movie/11,90?api_key=[blah] , but it's only returning the first movie. My main goal is to query a movie list and then get more info (such as duration) on each movie in that list. Is there just a way I can add a param to include more info in a list request?
Reply by Travis Bell
on August 12, 2013 at 9:36 ก่อนเที่ยง
Hi rustybailey,
We do not currently have the ability to query multiple ids at once.
Reply by rustybailey
on August 12, 2013 at 10:05 ก่อนเที่ยง
So if I want info on 50 movies, is themoviedb API's standard usage to send out 50 requests, or is there a more efficient way to do this?
Reply by Travis Bell
on August 12, 2013 at 3:42 หลังเที่ยง
Hi rustybailey,
50 requests. There is no other way.
Reply by angelxmoreno
on September 6, 2013 at 6:11 หลังเที่ยง
One thing to note @rustybailey is the limitation of 20 simultaneous connections and the fact the curl lets you make concurrent connections using multiCurl - here is an example of it http://multicurl.nisu.org/ - this might help make those 50 calls faster
Reply by Tomáš
on August 24, 2016 at 12:36 หลังเที่ยง
Hi, has the situation changed anyhow after almost three years? I have a list of 15 IDs and need to show movie posters and titles. Now I do it in a loop but it is terribly slow. Please, surprise me and inform me about a new, more efficient, method.
Thank you!
Reply by Travis Bell
on August 24, 2016 at 12:41 หลังเที่ยง
Hi T.I.P,
No this has not changed.
Reply by nkallen
on October 20, 2016 at 12:28 หลังเที่ยง
I'm really happy with the TMDB API so far. But I really wish you had a multiget interface though! GET /movies/?id=1,2,3 would be nice and restful...
Currently my code sends parallel requests, and in order to avoid getting 429 rate limited I have to batch them at a controlled frequency. The code is a bit of a hassle and I'm sure it's more resource-intensive on your servers than you would like!
Reply by Travis Bell
on October 20, 2016 at 6:15 หลังเที่ยง
Hi nkallen,
Thanks for the note. We don't have any plans to change this right now.
Reply by Alexey
on July 10, 2017 at 5:36 หลังเที่ยง
Another year passed, any chance? This is really necessary feature. Thanks!
Reply by Travis Bell
on July 10, 2017 at 5:53 หลังเที่ยง
Hi Alexey, there are still no plans for this. There's some potential changes up and coming around rate limits and before that were to ever change it could make sense to look at a multi get. But for now nothing is planned.
Reply by toshik
on September 14, 2017 at 3:31 หลังเที่ยง
i was curious any change to be able to use this ?? I started building my android app few months ago and now its been put on halt because of this can you help?
Reply by Travis Bell
on September 15, 2017 at 6:18 หลังเที่ยง
Hi @toshik There has been no change with regards to this.
Reply by toshik
on September 15, 2017 at 7:01 หลังเที่ยง
hi @travisbell thanks for reply
I know this is for the good and ethical practices that is one should not store any data, not even movie id,
would it be problem if i save movie id and movie name on user machine(mobile android) not on the server solely on user device as saved movies?
Reply by Travis Bell
on September 18, 2017 at 3:44 หลังเที่ยง
We have no problems with you caching the data. That is perfectly fine.
Reply by Chris Krueger
on September 27, 2017 at 5:16 หลังเที่ยง
I can also fully agree with the previous post! :) We need a query for multiple movies! It blow up with too much requests when my app is running :D This is my only bottleneck...