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Are there invalid person ID's?
posted by Joey RichardsonSTAFFMOD on July 30, 2014 at 8:47 PM
Hello I am trying to pull all actors/actresses from DB. Do all the ID numbers between 1 - latest return valid people?
while (i < 100000) { NSString *num = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%i", i];
NSString *personURL = [@"https://api.themoviedb.org/3/person/" stringByAppendingString:num];
personURL = [personURL stringByAppendingString:@"?api_key=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX&append_to_response=images"];
I am getting some return values that say invalid ID.
Reply by Travis Bell
on July 30, 2014 at 9:26 PM
Hi jrichardson,
Yes, there will be many ids that aren't present (deleted duplicates or just invalid people). Any invalid ids will return a 404 status and can be skipped.
Reply by Joey Richardson
on July 31, 2014 at 12:47 AM
How many valid people are there then? I was getting a consistent amount of 671 two days ago now I am getting 808.