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Question about movie responses
posted by koolSTAFFMOD on jūnijs 18, 2015 at 6:04 PM
Why, when I request upcoming movies, I get many movies from 10, 20 up to 50 years ago. I would expect to see only movies coming up in the future. Now playing movies is the same. It seems like a lot of unnecessary response items.
Atbilde no Travis Bell
on jūnijs 18, 2015 at 6:14 PM
Can you give me some examples? I don't see any on the first few pages I looked at.
As of me writing this, there's 89 movies being returned on the upcoming method.
Atbilde no kool
on jūnijs 18, 2015 at 6:37 PM
I got 88 returned, could be my program. However, one of the movies listed is "City Lights" with Charlie Chaplin, released in 1931. Why is this considered an upcoming movie? I would think upcoming movies would be those coming to theaters in the near future.
Atbilde no Travis Bell
on jūnijs 18, 2015 at 9:44 PM
Hi kool,
I do not see City Lights (id 901) on any of the 5 pages being returned by /movie/upcoming.
Can you tell me what page has that id?
Atbilde no kool
on jūnijs 18, 2015 at 11:45 PM
Travis, I found an error in my movie list routine that corrected the problem with movie/upcoming and movie/nowplaying. However movie/popular shows me a page count of 11320 and movie/toprated shows a page count of 166. Are these page counts correct? Seems like an awful lot.
Atbilde no Travis Bell
on jūnijs 19, 2015 at 9:43 AM
Hi kool,
We only let you query the first 1000 pages, but popularity is a metric calculated on all of the items so yes, basically take the total number of movies and divide them by 20, you'll be get around 11,320 pages.
In order for an item to be shown within the top rated query, they have to have at least 50 votes, and we'll list all of those items so around 3,320 movies (give or take with 166 pages).
Atbilde no kool
on jūnijs 19, 2015 at 10:21 AM
Thank you very much Travis. I appreciate your time and patience.