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Inconsistency in alternative titles?
pubblicato da agrmblSTAFFMOD il 8 giugno, 2016 alle 10:24AM
Hello,
First of all, your API is awesome!
And secondly, I think there is an issue with alt. titles for movies. Here's an example:
1) http://api.themoviedb.org/3/search/movie?api_key=[apikey]&query=плюмбум
Search shows all-English data, but search is done over Russian movie title.
"original_title" shows English-transliterated Russian title. "original_language" is "en" (which is not correct, but doesn't matter in my case)
2) http://api.themoviedb.org/3/search/movie?api_key=[apikey]&query=плюмбум&language=ru
Now it shows Russian title/description, however "original_title" is still transliterated.
3) http://api.themoviedb.org/3/movie/204039/alternative_titles?api_key=[apikey]
Main issue is here: Russian title is transliterated, which is not correct. And obviously you have proper string in database, as search and "language=ru" both work correctly.
I can see this happening with more Russian movies that I've checked, so it's some sort of a systematic error or data inconsistency.
Thank you.
P.S. Also, could you please clarify, what's your HTTP error code for rate limited queries?
Risposta da Travis Bell
il 8 giugno, 2016 alle 10:49AM
Hi agrmbl,
Alternative titles are not used in any way for the translated data (the data you're requesting by using
language=ru). Alternative titles are only a means to add extra titles for things like common misspellings, working titles, and things like that.original_titleshould always be in the original language of the movie, which should be tied to theoriginal_languagefield. The only translated fields you will get back will be thetitleandoverviewfields.It might help if you looked at the edit page for the movie, so you can see the separation of data: https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/204039-plyumbum-ili-opasnaya-igra/edit?active_nav_item=primary_facts&language=ru-RU
If any of the data is incorrect than you can of course make the necessary edits to fix it.
Risposta da agrmbl
il 8 giugno, 2016 alle 10:53AM
Thanks for the reply.
So that means that
original_languageis wrong for these movies I guess (andoriginal_titletoo as a result).Is there a method to get translated titles for a movie without resorting to re-querying "language" parameter?
Risposta da Travis Bell
il 8 giugno, 2016 alle 11:19AM
It very well could be, I don't honestly know. If it's a Russian movie than yes, it's wrong.
No, not really. I've created a new ticket to think about this here.
Oh, and we return a 429 on rate limited requests.
Risposta da agrmbl
il 8 giugno, 2016 alle 11:23AM
Well, as a Russian I can confirm they are wrong. :)
Thank you very much! I'd greatly appreciate this, as i use local titles extensively.
Risposta da lineker
il 8 giugno, 2016 alle 4:35PM
If you should come across any locked incorrect titles, just report them and a moderator will fix it for you.