The Movie Database qoldaýy
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Search API for specific movie name
posted by Lighthouse50STAFFMOD on 2017 Aqpan 12 at 8:19 AM
Hi, I just joined The Movie Database.
I understand I can search by a movie title, like this:
https://api.themoviedb.org/3/search/movie?api_key=###&query=red
However, it brings up multiple movies (Red, Rojo, Rood e.g).
How can I literally just get information about a movie which matches the exact query? (In this case, Red).
Cheers.
Travis Bell jaýaby
2017 Aqpan 12 kúni 11:49 AM ýaqytynda
Hi @Lighthouse50 Welcome!
You can't. Search is designed to be pretty good about showing the best match first but it won't always get it right. One way to help would be to add a year (if you know it) otherwise it's more of a fuzzy search.
Lighthouse50 jaýaby
2017 Aqpan 12 kúni 12:16 PM ýaqytynda
Hi Travis,
What do you mean by fuzzy search? The movie name in the query will always be correct (not like enter part of the movie name). Are you sure there's no way to literally only display if it matches the exact query?
Travis Bell jaýaby
2017 Aqpan 12 kúni 12:24 PM ýaqytynda
It's an ngram search from the start of a title. The website user the API so you can see exactly how it works by testing it here.
I do not have any logic built to accommodate exact searching.
Playpilot jaýaby
2017 Aqpan 14 kúni 11:32 AM ýaqytynda
@Lighthouse50 ; an idea: You can always iterate the results and check for exact title matches on the client side.
TanyaPrinzesss jaýaby
2023 Qarasha 30 kúni 4:22 PM ýaqytynda
I know this is really old., but I made an NPM to help with this... https://www.npmjs.com/package/identify-media, you feed it the filename with year and everything else in it and it tries to identify what is movie, what is release year, and what is "other" (info like director's cut, or extended, etc.) and what can be ignored. It works pretty well. I have also added functions to search opensubtitles with hash...