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.
Non riesci a trovare un film o una serie Tv? Accedi per crearlo.
Vuoi valutare o aggiungere quest'elemento a una lista?
Non sei un membro?
Risposta da Travis Bell
il 12 febbraio, 2017 alle 11:49AM
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.
Risposta da Lighthouse50
il 12 febbraio, 2017 alle 12:16PM
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?
Risposta da Travis Bell
il 12 febbraio, 2017 alle 12:24PM
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.
Risposta da Playpilot
il 14 febbraio, 2017 alle 11:32AM
@Lighthouse50 ; an idea: You can always iterate the results and check for exact title matches on the client side.
Risposta da TanyaPrinzesss
il 30 novembre, 2023 alle 4:22PM
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...