Image query? Profoundly confused

The Movie Database Support

posted by tedg
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on December 11, 2014 at 4:02 หลังเที่ยง

Sorry. I find the documentation hard to understand. Suppose I have a movie's TMDb or IMDb ID number. And in a web page, I wish to display (but not store) the top poster for that film.

I have an API key.

I may have grokked this a couple years back but it eludes me now.

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Reply by Travis Bell

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on December 11, 2014 at 7:06 หลังเที่ยง

If you have a TMDb ID, lets say id 550, you would issue this request:

https://api.themoviedb.org/3/movie/550?api_key=###

Grab the poster_path field (/2lECpi35Hnbpa4y46JX0aY3AWTy.jpg) in this case, an combine it with the details outlined in the configuration method. For the sake of this discussion, lets say the 'w500' size:

https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/2lECpi35Hnbpa4y46JX0aY3AWTy.jpg

If you had an IMDB id (tt0137523 in this case), you would start with the find method…

https://api.themoviedb.org/3/find/tt0137523?api_key=###&external_source=imdb_id

Grab the id and pick up where I started above.

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