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Best practices for updating popularity?
posted by chrisdrackettSTAFFMOD on February 26, 2014 at 1:49 AM
We currently update popularity on an item when it comes up in the change log. I'm currently worried this means we'll end up with stale popularity numbers for some movies. Just curious if anyone has a solution for this, if it is in fact a problem.
Reply by Travis Bell
on February 27, 2014 at 4:46 PM
Hey Chris,
It's true, it could in theory be possible for that to happen. Popularity is calculated every day and not every movie changes every day.
Best I can think of is to hit the movie detail method for each ID you have stored. There's no way to do this in bulk. The other option is to hit the
/movie/popularmethod but that will only get you the top 20,000 movies. We max the pagination to 1000 pages.Cheers.