The Movie Database Support
Support → API Support
some basic help
posted by ggdhinesSTAFFMOD on October 5, 2013 at 7:52 AM
Hi, I just registered (thanks for the quick response to my registration request) and I am trying to make use of the database. I have a fair bit of experience with programming but I have no idea how the API for this site works. I'm not even sure what language the API is written in and the documentation hasn't been any help. I'm guessing I don't write the job on my own computer but somehow make use of apiary.io but I'm not sure. It might help if the documentation had a simple walk through example. Any help would be greatly appreciated, Greg
Reply by Travis Bell
on October 5, 2013 at 10:26 AM
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):
Cheers.
Reply by dynamic_cast
on October 8, 2013 at 4:58 PM
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.
Reply by Travis Bell
on October 8, 2013 at 5:15 PM
You can read about how to get the required path information for images on the configuration method.
Cheers.
Reply by eoin_a
on December 12, 2013 at 8:11 PM
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?
Reply by Travis Bell
on December 13, 2013 at 12:24 AM
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.
Reply by eoin_a
on December 13, 2013 at 7:22 AM
i tried by typing this into my browser and it didnt return anything
http://themoviedb.apiary.io/3/search/the+football+factory?api_key=#######
Reply by eoin_a
on December 13, 2013 at 7:40 AM
basically the construction of the url is where my issue is where do i put the api key in the url
Reply by eoin_a
on December 13, 2013 at 10:14 AM
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.?
Reply by Travis Bell
on December 13, 2013 at 10:17 AM
A valid search call looks like:
Cheers.
Reply by eoin_a
on December 13, 2013 at 11:23 AM
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.
Reply by eoin_a
on December 13, 2013 at 4:31 PM
I fixed it. it was an issue with the certificate authentication
Reply by Travis Bell
on December 13, 2013 at 5:05 PM
Great.