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Search API for specific movie name
publicado por Lighthouse50STAFFMOD el 12 de febrero de 2017 a las 08:19
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.
Contestado por Travis Bell
el 12 de febrero de 2017 a las 11:49
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.
Contestado por Lighthouse50
el 12 de febrero de 2017 a las 12:16
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?
Contestado por Travis Bell
el 12 de febrero de 2017 a las 12:24
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.
Contestado por Playpilot
el 14 de febrero de 2017 a las 11:32
@Lighthouse50 ; an idea: You can always iterate the results and check for exact title matches on the client side.
Contestado por TanyaPrinzesss
el 30 de noviembre de 2023 a las 16:22
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...