Support for franchise/universe querying

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johnmurphy
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发布于 2017 年 08 月 11 日 2:01下午

I'd like to be able to retrieve a list of movie franchises and universes then subsequently gather a list of movies based on a particular franchise or universe. From my understanding, there are basically 3 ways to accomplish this with each having corresponding problems:

Keywords - I had started adding keywords on each movie that would fall under a movie universe or franchise. My keywords were recently removed because they were not considered essential. I was told to use lists or collections. Even if my keywords were not removed, I would have had to store a local list of valid keywords that only pertained to franchises or universes, since keywords can be a myriad of things.
Lists - Lists are pretty quickly a non-starter because you have to be authenticated to get your lists and the site I am trying to develop cannot rely on a single person's authentication.
Collections - Collections are okay but, like keywords, contain either incomplete or missing information. For instance, the Spider-Man collection, which I would assume are all of the movies under the Spider-Man franchise is actually just the 3 Sam Raimi directed films. Let's say a new Spiderman collection was created to encompass the entire franchise, would the original collection need to be renamed to Sam Raimi Spiderman Collection? Or would the new collection need to be called Spiderman Franchise Collection? Then there's the instance of missing collections(there is no Disney Collection?).

Ultimately, my request is that there is an endpoint in which I can:

get a list of movie franchises/universes by searching using a query parameter, language, etc.. similar to the search keywords endpoint
get a list of movies based on the "franchise/universe" id, ideally as part of the discover endpoint, which is really awesome already

I realize this is possibly a huge request, but also I just don't see how TMDB doesn't already have a way to filter movies based on franchise and also contain a list of franchises to enumerate.

Thanks in advance and if I can help in any way I would be happy to do so.

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Marr 🇳🇱 的回复

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于 2017 年 08 月 11 日 4:33下午

Some notes, not really an answer, but still:

Collections, like keywords are not to be used for universes. Collections are solely for indicating sequels. Movie not a sequel? Then not in a collection.
Lists are the way for universes on TMDb indeed. I don't know what site you mean, but sometimes sites also offer their own way of creating lists, like Letterboxd or Trakt. You can contact the developer about such a feature! :)
Travis is working on a universe-thing. With collections in collections, and maybe combining movies/tv shows, indicating reboots/sequels idk. But it's all in the works.

Travis Bell 的回复

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于 2017 年 08 月 11 日 5:12下午

To zero in on point #3 made by @alltimemarr, I have plans to implement real, proper universes. Until that feature is built, there is no such functionality right now on TMDb.

johnmurphy 的回复

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于 2017 年 08 月 13 日 1:41上午

Thanks for the clarification on what a collection is. I guess for now my own database can contain franchise/universe lists and contain an array of TMDb movie ids of movies that belong in a franchise/universe. Looking forward to franchise/shared universe categories/filters in TMDb!

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于 2025 年 01 月 12 日 8:12上午

@travisbell any progress on the universe feature? would love to see it in TMDb

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ticao2 🇧🇷 pt-BR 的回复

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于 2025 年 01 月 12 日 12:38下午

@alp82 said:
@travisbell any progress on the universe feature? would love to see it in TMDb

There are plans to add this feature.
It's already on Trello's To-Do list.
There is no implementation deadline.
If you want you can vote. More votes, faster. :-)
See here:
https://trello.com/c/cRiMnOvH/79-create-universes-franchises

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