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Missing actors in credits movie compared to IMDB website
posted by francaSTAFFMOD on November 29, 2016 at 7:16 AM
Hello,
Api and its doc is great ! However, when I send a request on movie/{movieId}/credits, I have less results than on IMDB website. Try to understand why, but don't...
Thanks for help !
Reply by lineker
on November 29, 2016 at 7:42 AM
My guess is that the data hasn't yet been added here in full for many movies, while most mainstream movies on IMDb have complete cast listings.
Reply by franca
on November 29, 2016 at 7:52 AM
Thank you ! Isn't the data of themoviedbapi based on undocumented IMDB API ?
Reply by Travis Bell
on November 29, 2016 at 9:14 AM
No. We've never imported any data from IMDB. We're building our own database from scratch.
Reply by Marr 🇳🇱
on November 29, 2016 at 12:22 PM
Note: Also, some actor credit simply don't appear in the movie. I usually add whatever I see in the movie credits, and if it is uncredited, I don't add it. I don't use IMDb as a source for adding crew/acting credits, because they can be wrong (especially for crew).
Reply by lineker
on November 29, 2016 at 4:56 PM
For older movies where sometimes only 10 percent of the actors got a credit, adding the uncredited credits marked with (uncredited) can be very useful. But for newer movies I agree that we should focus on the actual credits. Still, adding (uncredited) acting credits is not wrong.