The Movie Database Support
Support → API Support
Is a movie's poster_path persistent, or does it change?
posted by noahamarSTAFFMOD on august 16, 2013 at 12:15 AM
I'd just like to know whether the hashed string of a movie's poster-path is changed over some period of time, or does it always stay the same? I'd like to store the poster-path string locally to save on API requests, but I wouldn't want the image to break if the poster-path is no longer valid. Thanks!
Reply by Travis Bell
on august 16, 2013 at 10:30 AM
Hi noahamar,
The
poster_pathfield itself is only unique to the highest rated poster. If a different poster gets more highly rated it will replace the old value with the new value.The URL data that makes up the complete path found in the configuration method can change. It has twice in 5 years.
Reply by noahamar
on august 16, 2013 at 8:55 PM
Great, thanks!