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"Now Playing" shows outdated movies
posted by sangsaephanSTAFFMOD on novembris 30, 2016 at 11:45 AM
I think it may just be on my end, but is anyone else seeing really outdated movies when they query now_playing movies?
Atbilde no Travis Bell
on novembris 30, 2016 at 4:08 PM
Hi @sangsaephan
This week saw a bit of a change with the now playing and upcoming methods. In order to make them region and release type aware they were changed to query the release date field instead of the primary release date. At the same time though, they were also changed to only show the release types 2 or 3 (limited theatrical and theatrical). Which is nice because there won't be any physical/digital/premiere movies showing up. So we gained some and lost some.
Depending on your needs, adding a region param to your query will solve it. If you don't want to narrow your results to a region, I'm not exactly sure yet. The problem is that in order to get release type filtering I have to filter on all release dates and not the primary release date.
Atbilde no sangsaephan
on novembris 30, 2016 at 5:23 PM
Thanks @travisbell It worked perfectly! Another quick question, are the results on each page displayed in a specific order, or are results just randomly placed on different pages? Thanks!
Atbilde no Travis Bell
on novembris 30, 2016 at 5:46 PM
Awesome! Nice to see the new system work as intended 😉
They are ordered by popularity by default. If you would like them to ordered a different way, you can use movie discover to build your own custom query the way you want to. Technically, behind the scenes all now playing is, is actually a discover query. I just default some of the params for you.
Atbilde no sangsaephan
on novembris 30, 2016 at 5:55 PM
Ahh I see. I'll definitely look into that. Thanks again, @travisbell