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Question about /movie/upcoming
posted by qua1itySTAFFMOD on March 27, 2016 at 9:20 AM
I didn't find any information about this in the docs, so i'm asking here.
Firstly, i understand that the "release_date" property contains the first theatrical release date. But is it possible to get the release dates specific to a country? Like you can on the website. If not, i find this data somewhat pointless.
Secondly, How is the results array ordered? If you loop through them you get 20 objects (containing the movies) per page, but i don't understand the logic behind their order. They doesn't seem to be ordered by their release dates, which i thought they would. Took an image from the Chrome console to demonstrate this: http://imgur.com/mAJOI9i
Reply by Travis Bell
on March 27, 2016 at 11:19 AM
Hi quality,
First, querying by country will be possible later this year. We finally have all the data hooked up in a way that makes this possible so it's not much work.
Second, the results are ordered by popularity. It's the same results you can find here: https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/upcoming
Reply by qua1ity
on March 27, 2016 at 11:51 AM
Hi Travis,
Thanks for the fast reply. Sounds good, unless you have an ETA on the update, where can i find information about it when its out?
Reply by Travis Bell
on March 29, 2016 at 7:00 PM
You can follow the ticket for this here: https://tmdb.lighthouseapp.com/projects/83077/tickets/176-support-locale-specific-lists-like-now-playing-upcoming
Cheers.