Hi ggdhines,

First of all, Apiary is just a tool to help you out. It is neither a service offered by us or something you would use to make "real world" requests.

Secondly, our API is a JSON web service. So depending on what language you prefer to write code in, you would need to look at the easiest/best way to do it. We have a number of user contributed libraries that can help make this even easier.

But, at the end of the day a simple request to retrieve the movie with the id of 550 looks like this (replace ### with your API key):

http://api.themoviedb.org/3/movie/550?api_key=###

Cheers.

Hi

I'm also new here and I am getting familiar with the API. I want to know how to use the poster path that is returned in the JSON object. It starts with a "/" and then some characters and then ends with the file type. I do not know how to use that to get access to the full URL of the image. I would appreciate some guidance. Thanks.

P.S: If this is not the correct place to post such a question then I am sorry.

You can read about how to get the required path information for images on the configuration method.

Cheers.

but how do you find get the movies number? i just want to search based on a name i don't know the number of a film?

Hi eoin_a,

You can get the ID by doing a search: http://docs.themoviedb.apiary.io/#search

Search supports the searching by title like you were asking about.

Cheers.

i tried by typing this into my browser and it didnt return anything

http://themoviedb.apiary.io/3/search/the+football+factory?api_key=#######

basically the construction of the url is where my issue is where do i put the api key in the url

https://api.themoviedb.org/3/search/movie?api_key=######################f/fight+club

heres and example of the url iam calling with curl in my php program Iam pretty sure its wrong because when i make a similar call to http://www.yahoo.com i get back the paga data

It returns data when I use http but says i have an invalid key? and nothing when i use https.?

A valid search call looks like:

http://api.themoviedb.org/3/search/movie?api_key=###&query=fight+club

Cheers.

thanks for the help i seem to be able to get the data using the url in the browser but its returning nothing when using curl. also i can make a call to configuration but this is no good to me as i want data on a specific movie.

I fixed it. it was an issue with the certificate authentication

Great.