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Movies returned by the genre API are not what I expect
Inlagt av StepTNTSTAFFMOD den 19 december 2013 vid 8:48 AM
I'll make it plain and simple: the genre API returns quite unknown movies and this is not what the user expects.
Let's make a quick sample. http://www.themoviedb.org/genre/878-science-fiction?language=en
The movies in this page are the ones that I get when I call https://api.themoviedb.org/3/genre/878/movies?api_key=###&language=en
The problem is that most of them are quite unknown, because the API returns the most rated movies and it's easy to be one of the most rated if you have just one positive vote. This means that a lot of well known movies are not in the first page because they're average rating is around 6, even if they have more than 300 votes.
Now, considering that it would be insane to make an API request for each page, to get all the movies, and then filter them offline (base on the votes count and other parameters), is there any way to get a list of the more popular movies for each genre without having to make tons of requests?
Svar från Travis Bell
den 19 december 2013 vid 11:03 AM
Yes, this is why we limit the number of minimum votes to 10 in order to return a movie in the genre list. You should see it without that ;)
This is simply by design, the genre lists are not meant to be anything but exactly that, a list of movies for each genre.
If you would like the ability to tune those parameters, add a minimum rating, a minimum vote count, etc, I suggest looking at the discover method. All of these options are tuneable with genres.
Cheers.