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API does not work to get images of the movie.
posted by Pavel PuchkovSTAFFMOD on сакавік 9, 2016 at 11:27 PM
http://api.themoviedb.org/3/movie/297761/images?api_key=API_KEY return: {"id":297761,"backdrops":[],"posters":[{"aspect_ratio":0.701262272089762,"file_path":"/gnb54uIjX2M81c6RWPM4uQwulMt.jpg","height":1426,"iso_639_1":"en","vote_average":5.86270871985158,"vote_count":14,"width":1000},{"aspect_ratio":0.666666666666667,"file_path":"/dbZjnscVCRyEqONqLCpuJpMs9EK.jpg","height":1500,"iso_639_1":"en","vote_average":5.63809523809524,"vote_count":12,"width":1000},{"aspect_ratio":0.666666666666667,"file_path":"/q97KbqGXF4rlXFzwsZbxPqxmDvK.jpg","height":3000,"iso_639_1":"en","vote_average":5.3125,"vote_count":1,"width":2000},{"aspect_ratio":0.6669921875,"file_path":"/eAQXJrxtmhYR3HDJ2CmvfOxKnj3.jpg","height":2048,"iso_639_1":"en","vote_average":5.24542124542125,"vote_count":2,"width":1366},{"aspect_ratio":0.666666666666667,"file_path":"/AfZAysJiBRvCS6c7ai6RnwOb8Qt.jpg","height":3000,"iso_639_1":"en","vote_average":5.21611721611722,"vote_count":2,"width":2000},{"aspect_ratio":0.701262272089762,"file_path":"/pb6f9zBniUQeydSwfdaPszILprm.jpg","height":1426,"iso_639_1":"en","vote_average":5.17316017316017,"vote_count":3,"width":1000},{"aspect_ratio":0.666666666666667,"file_path":"/1rk6Fp5uRcgjjnP7omwAPuFTQzo.jpg","height":1500,"iso_639_1":"en","vote_average":5.15151515151515,"vote_count":3,"width":1000},{"aspect_ratio":0.674666666666667,"file_path":"/v1V3I7CvtHwjeTvtVlh4LqKHo4i.jpg","height":1500,"iso_639_1":"en","vote_average":5.11387163561077,"vote_count":6,"width":1012},{"aspect_ratio":0.666666666666667,"file_path":"/zcIj1SlMgPXs3uqYMCxYOOFhSCO.jpg","height":750,"iso_639_1":"en","vote_average":5.05602240896359,"vote_count":5,"width":500},{"aspect_ratio":0.675496688741722,"file_path":"/mUbH2V4QFftNPPwN0fOHC95U9xQ.jpg","height":755,"iso_639_1":"en","vote_average":5.04329004329004,"vote_count":3,"width":510},{"aspect_ratio":0.666666666666667,"file_path":"/5EqplJN57aGrxXfda5ezihJtZ1s.jpg","height":3000,"iso_639_1":"en","vote_average":4.99654934437543,"vote_count":6,"width":2000},{"aspect_ratio":0.666666666666667,"file_path":"/9Z4KHoABKGx0VJUJCU7JdF8LJgR.jpg","height":3000,"iso_639_1":"en","vote_average":0.0,"vote_count":0,"width":2000},{"aspect_ratio":0.6669921875,"file_path":"/la7yGXCIxdChO2FzzWweY0dHKn4.jpg","height":2048,"iso_639_1":"en","vote_average":0.0,"vote_count":0,"width":1366},{"aspect_ratio":0.6669921875,"file_path":"/xQp1EATIyFFwGqntU4hMbWIRljT.jpg","height":2048,"iso_639_1":"en","vote_average":0.0,"vote_count":0,"width":1366},{"aspect_ratio":0.6669921875,"file_path":"/yFN6lBhdZXEdI7OUCZDlA1Orzqn.jpg","height":2048,"iso_639_1":"en","vote_average":0.0,"vote_count":0,"width":1366},{"aspect_ratio":0.6669921875,"file_path":"/lYC5Gpx2tXQxRl923fkJe5EDRFO.jpg","height":2048,"iso_639_1":"en","vote_average":0.0,"vote_count":0,"width":1366},{"aspect_ratio":0.6669921875,"file_path":"/38TnUkEWAqiVYI6BuRn5FbgYfiY.jpg","height":2048,"iso_639_1":"en","vote_average":0.0,"vote_count":0,"width":1366},{"aspect_ratio":0.6669921875,"file_path":"/ir7JiNamwri6Dwk4O5lIs8aJ09i.jpg","height":2048,"iso_639_1":"en","vote_average":0.0,"vote_count":0,"width":1366},{"aspect_ratio":0.6669921875,"file_path":"/8xTztFIWCoJYC1KjjorlfuQu3pP.jpg","height":2048,"iso_639_1":"en","vote_average":0.0,"vote_count":0,"width":1366},{"aspect_ratio":0.6669921875,"file_path":"/eux2yj16tMfzVKKYUeGZFfDFmJD.jpg","height":2048,"iso_639_1":"en","vote_average":0.0,"vote_count":0,"width":1366},{"aspect_ratio":0.6669921875,"file_path":"/pufiOgNGU5tky1YGamgnZMHDZ3X.jpg","height":2048,"iso_639_1":"en","vote_average":0.0,"vote_count":0,"width":1366},{"aspect_ratio":0.6669921875,"file_path":"/vrOjc6uohgZwHQUj6l17RgAMpBH.jpg","height":2048,"iso_639_1":"en","vote_average":0.0,"vote_count":0,"width":1366}]}
In response, there is not a single backdrops. But on https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/297761-suicide-squad we found 10 backdrops.
Reply by Travis Bell
on сакавік 9, 2016 at 11:43 PM
Hi Pavel,
Thanks for the report. I'll take a look at this tomorrow morning
Cheers.
Reply by Larry Aasen
on сакавік 10, 2016 at 6:27 AM
I see the same issue where backdrops contain no images. This is not a problem on every movie. 0 images: http://api.themoviedb.org/3/movie/281957?api_key=aaa&append_to_response=images&id=281957 2 images: http://api.themoviedb.org/3/movie/273248?api_key=aaa&append_to_response=images&id=273248
Reply by Pavel Puchkov
on сакавік 10, 2016 at 10:07 AM
Now http://api.themoviedb.org/3/movie/297761/images?api_key=API_KEY return: {"id":297761,"backdrops":[],"posters":[{"aspect_ratio":0.675016479894529,"file_path":"/gZ5sGqFFTnjMEOO9XvOCde977a1.jpg","height":1517,"iso_639_1":"fr","vote_average":5.26785714285714,"vote_count":1,"width":1024}]}
Only one poster, but https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/297761-suicide-squad has 24 posters.
Reply by Travis Bell
on сакавік 10, 2016 at 11:43 AM
The fix for this has been pushed, you'll just have to wait for the cache to expire which is usually within ~6 hours. Many movies will start returning the proper data sooner than that.
Reply by Charlie Merland
on сакавік 10, 2016 at 1:50 PM
To anyone wondering, looks like the issue lies with ISO-639-1 codes: the API only returns backdrops and posters having a defined language and defaults to English if you don't pass a language parameter to the query. Any backdrop/poster without language or with a language other than English will be ignored. You can see this with the movie 300 which has 25 backdrops but only 4 of which are set as English. The API will only return those 4 backdrops, ignoring the 21 others.
Glad to know it's fixed though! Thank you Travis.