The Movie Database Support
Support → API Support
Finding a keyword id
posted by FrostycrowSTAFFMOD on February 20, 2016 at 11:41 AM
Hi i am fairly new to using this API, i have a quick question regarding searching for films by KEYWORD - to search i must have a valid keyword ID, however how do i find the id related to a given keyword? For example i search for keyword = cat, how do i get the id ?
Thanks in advance
Reply by Travis Bell
on February 29, 2016 at 9:34 AM
Hi Frostycrow,
There's 2 ways you would normally get the id of a keyword.
First, by calling (for example) the /keywords method on a movie. This will return a list of keyword (along with the id).
Second, would be to use /search/keyword. An example request would look like:
This will return a list of items with a name and id.
Cheers.
Reply by LeoIndu
on December 29, 2023 at 3:19 AM
can we send multiple keywords? i tried it by seperating from a coma... and it reduced the number of results
Reply by ticao2 🇧🇷 pt-BR
on December 29, 2023 at 11:38 AM
Yes.
Comma = AND
Pipe = OR
Use pipe, | .
See the rule:
AND/OR Logic
Also note that a number of filters support being comma (,) or pipe (|) separated.
Comma's are treated like an AND query while pipe's are treated like an OR.
This allows for quite complex filtering depending on your desired results.
Reply by Travis Bell
on December 29, 2023 at 12:09 PM
What @ticao2 said is true for discover. This does not work on search.
Reply by LeoIndu
on December 29, 2023 at 12:31 PM
worked!... thank you so much☜(ﾟヮﾟ☜)