Limit the number of people when retrieving a movie's cast

The Movie Database-ondersteuning

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geplaatst door CANALE83
STAFFMOD
op 1 april 2014 om 4:21 PM

Hi,

I have a problem about using TMDB's API and I'd like to know if anyone can help me out.

I use the following function to retreive the cast of a particular movie: the problem is that some movies have a HUGE cast, 50 or 60 people, and it's pretty useless to me, and once they are grabbed from TMDB there is no way to order them with "relevance" priority but only by name. For this reason I can't just crop the list after is retrived and stored because I would select only the first of them in alphabet order.

public function getMovieCast($id) { return $this->_makeCall('movie/'.$id.'/casts'); }

Is there any way to limit the number of people to retreive from TMDB in this function when asking for the cast of a particular movie? If I could edit this function just to retrieve 10/12 actors it would be more that enough for my need.

Thanks in advance to everyone!

Best regards

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Reactie van Travis Bell

STAFFMOD

op 1 april 2014 om 5:32 PM

Hi CANALE83,

once they are grabbed from TMDB there is no way to order them with "relevance" priority but only by name

There is a order field which is what you should be using to order the cast credits responses by. This would be your relevancy.

Is there any way to limit the number of people to retreive from TMDB

No, there is not.

If I could edit this function just to retrieve 10/12 actors it would be more that enough for my need.

Best you can do is pull the whole array down and just grab the first 10 items. It doesn't really matter what else is returned, does it?

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STAFFMOD

op 1 april 2014 om 6:06 PM

Thanks!

Very helpful tips!

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