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Should the site make an API request every time someone searches?
Verfasst von Roygbiv1STAFFMOD am 17. Januar 2014 um 13:26
I'm currently developing a site and there is a search engine that, when someone inputs, makes a request to themovie db API. I'm not very experienced but I'm trying to learn. So, if 100 people searched for the same movie, there would be 100 separate requests. I feel like this is bad for the internet economy. Is there a method to avoid that (maybe somehow download the database locally) or it is the only way to make requests again and again?
Antwort von Travis Bell
am 17. Januar 2014 um 16:15
Hi Roygbiv1,
You are free to cache and store data on your own server but with search especially, unless you're up for creating a powerful and robust search infrastructure like we have (many hundreds of dev hours) you might as well just send them back to TMDb.
It's not really "bad", search is one of those things that kind of needs to be real time.
We do not provide any type of downloadable database. Only the API.
Cheers.