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API search changes?
posted by Michell BakSTAFFMOD on May 24, 2014 at 5:24 PM
Hi Travis!
I was wondering if there's been a change in the API movie search recently? Specifically, I'm referring to queries without hyphens when the real title includes hyphens - i.e. searching for "The ChangeUp", expecting to get results for "The Change-Up".
This is something that used to work, but it doesn't seem to do so anymore. Any comments on that?
Reply by Travis Bell
on May 26, 2014 at 10:45 AM
I didn't change this on purpose but I think I know why it changed.
I've already applied the fix so it will be fixed on the next deploy and reindex (probably another 24 hours).
Reply by Michell Bak
on May 26, 2014 at 10:48 AM
That's excellent! I always appreciate your fast support and (even faster) actions. Thanks a lot! :-)
Reply by Travis Bell
on May 26, 2014 at 10:51 AM
No worries, you're welcome :D
Reply by Michell Bak
on May 27, 2014 at 7:10 PM
Hi again!
Just thought I'd let you know that it doesn't seem to have been pushed / fixed yet. Can you confirm this at your end?
Reply by Travis Bell
on May 27, 2014 at 8:12 PM
Correct, won't be until tomorrow.
Reply by Michell Bak
on May 27, 2014 at 8:13 PM
All right, thanks again!
Reply by Travis Bell
on May 28, 2014 at 1:13 PM
Should be live: https://www.themoviedb.org/search?query=The+ChangeUp
Cheers.
Reply by Michell Bak
on May 28, 2014 at 1:16 PM
Yup, it started working about 15 hours ago, I think :-)
Thanks!