Hi guys,

in my application, I'm aiming to make the collection of movies with the total number of elements specified at the same beginning. It would mean that I need a reliable "total_results" field and paging requests.

However, I find the paging responses very unstable.

Let's check out an example of the "https://api.themoviedb.org/3/movie/now_playing?page=1&language=en"

Performing the same request one after another gives us the responses like:

"total_results":687,"dates":{"maximum":"2017-07-19","minimum":"2017-06-07"},"total_pages":35}
"total_results":686,"dates":{"maximum":"2017-07-19","minimum":"2017-06-07"},"total_pages":35}
"total_results":699,"dates":{"maximum":"2017-07-13","minimum":"2017-06-01"},"total_pages":35}
"total_results":686,"dates":{"maximum":"2017-07-19","minimum":"2017-06-07"},"total_pages":35}
"total_results":686,"dates":{"maximum":"2017-07-19","minimum":"2017-06-07"},"total_pages":35}
"total_results":686,"dates":{"maximum":"2017-07-19","minimum":"2017-06-07"},"total_pages":35}
"total_results":686,"dates":{"maximum":"2017-07-19","minimum":"2017-06-07"},"total_pages":35}
"total_results":686,"dates":{"maximum":"2017-07-19","minimum":"2017-06-07"},"total_pages":35}
"total_results":693,"dates":{"maximum":"2017-07-14","minimum":"2017-06-02"},"total_pages":35}
"total_results":693,"dates":{"maximum":"2017-07-14","minimum":"2017-06-02"},"total_pages":35}

Basically, a problem lies in a range of dates. It cannot be specified in the request and it's not deterministic which ones are picked.

The problem that rises here is that I cannot rely on the "total_results" received in the page=1 request in order to prepare a whole collection. Moreover, I also need to filter out the results to have them all unique (e.g. it always happen to me that after going through all the 35 pages, I need to filter out dozens of movies because they were actually fetched in one of the previous pages).

My desired result would be to have a deterministic "total_results" field and all results unique (I think this one would be achieved implicitly if I would have all the page responses with the same minimum and maximum date) :)

Is it a known issue or maybe I'm missing anything here? :)

Great thanks for your help!

Best regards