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list of movies by genre(s) returns nothing
posted by racainchSTAFFMOD on December 23, 2014 at 3:26 PM
So i'm building an app that uses discover/movie method that includes the (with_genre) parameter. I began to notice about a week ago that my app was crashing, due to the fact that some genres were returning nothing in the results[ ]. I also tried getting a list of movies through the genre/movie/list method, same thing no results.
Here is a list of the genres that are not currently returning movies -
- 2916
- 105
- 82
- 10750
- 10753
- 10595
- 10756
- 22
- 10754
- 1115
- 10755
- 9805
- 10758
- 10757
- 10748
Please fix this as soon as possible.
Reply by Travis Bell
on December 23, 2014 at 4:30 PM
Hi racainch,
Those are not valid genres on TMDb. The genres returned by /genre/movie/list are the valid genres.
Reply by racainch
on December 23, 2014 at 5:23 PM
So are you permanently removing those genres? if so are you going to add new genres?
Reply by Travis Bell
on December 28, 2014 at 10:22 AM
These ones were technically removed ~4 years ago. A bug was recently found that allowed them to be added in any session language that wasn't English. I fixed that bug and now the genre list is as we designed it to be years ago.
There is a discussion about the future of genres on TMDb here.