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Api to get similar movies for a movie id is really time consuming, how to optimally handle it ?
posted by raghavanklSTAFFMOD on February 20, 2014 at 10:04 PM
For many movies there are more than 1500 pages of similarity movie results for example for movie id = 2 I see 1873 pages and total results 37447. Is there any way to get only top 100 similar movies based on some similarity score. For instance if movie id=2 has some 100 movies with high similarity I need only those movies else is there any way to quickly fetch all similar movie ids instead of hitting the API 1873 times.
Reply by Travis Bell
on February 20, 2014 at 11:09 PM
Hi raghavankl,
I might be misunderstanding something but the similar movie results are returned in order of a relevancy score even though it's not displayed. If you're only interested in the top 100 movies, just grab the first 5 pages. You don't need to grab any more than that…
Reply by raghavankl
on February 21, 2014 at 1:20 AM
Hi Travis,
I think you are right, I need only top 100 similar movies. So what I understand from your answer is If I call this API (/3/movie/{id}/similar_movies) with a movie id the results are rendered on a descending order of the relevancy score. Thanks for your information.