Ok as I looked further I found this https://developers.themoviedb.org/3/people/get-person-images there is a way to get an image but it asks for "person_id" where will I find person id?

Hi @RichaGupta,

When you say you want to get the images of a person do you mean their profile images or rather, the backdrops and posters that they appear in?

Hi Travis,

I am trying to get their profile pic, I am able to get to it somehow now but I am confused why there are multiple pics return and which one should be considered? like if I try to find Chris Brown pics there are 5 different images I am getting how would I know which one to pick programmatically?

I first try to get to that person details like this

https://api.themoviedb.org/3/search/person?api_key=XXXXXXXXXXX&language=en-US&query=Chris%20Brown&page=1&include_adult=false

there you can see "profile_path" out of all 39 total results, it has 5 images which one to consider in that case?

https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/mPQkVbV1SBo0d7lE2BlEivCOrs2.jpg https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/4k8sacCMG9jI2jo7x5XVSzq2Mnt.jpg https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/vL805BcPV6xbu2HUZig8ZEvnjJL.jpg https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/7IwyeH44l7MaJ9Fo48CVxj7nyQT.jpg https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/coja80Y3B1XJeCJpW6l1ReCH7Zh.jpg

Thanks Richa

Hi Richa,

Each item in the results array is an object representative of a single person. There is only 1 image per object. I've truncated the results here:

{
  "page": 1,
  "total_results": 39,
  "total_pages": 2,
  "results": [
    {
      "popularity": 1.4,
      "id": 1939990,
      "profile_path": null,
      "name": "Chris Brown",
      "known_for": [ ... ],
      "adult": false
    },
    {
      "popularity": 1.336,
      "id": 1395790,
      "profile_path": null,
      "name": "Chris Brown",
      "known_for": [ ... ],
      "adult": false
    },
    {
      "popularity": 1.12,
      "id": 1414991,
      "profile_path": "/mPQkVbV1SBo0d7lE2BlEivCOrs2.jpg",
      "name": "Chris Brown",
      "known_for": [ ... ],
      "adult": false
    },
    ...
  ]
}

So the 3rd item in the array has a profile image of "/mPQkVbV1SBo0d7lE2BlEivCOrs2.jpg".

ok thanks, I think I am able to figure it out there are some glitches but its working for now :)

@RichaGupta said:

Hi Travis,

I am trying to get their profile pic, I am able to get to it somehow now but I am confused why there are multiple pics return and which one should be considered? like if I try to find Chris Brown pics there are 5 different images I am getting how would I know which one to pick programmatically?

I first try to get to that person details like this

https://api.themoviedb.org/3/search/person?api_key=XXXXXXXXXXX&language=en-US&query=Chris%20Brown&page=1&include_adult=false

there you can see "profile_path" out of all 39 total results, it has 5 images which one to consider in that case?

https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/mPQkVbV1SBo0d7lE2BlEivCOrs2.jpg https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/4k8sacCMG9jI2jo7x5XVSzq2Mnt.jpg https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/vL805BcPV6xbu2HUZig8ZEvnjJL.jpg https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/7IwyeH44l7MaJ9Fo48CVxj7nyQT.jpg https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/coja80Y3B1XJeCJpW6l1ReCH7Zh.jpg

Thanks Richa

how can we get actors images for each movie

@TohidGazi said:
how can we get actors images for each movie

When you make a Movie Details API Request,
https://developer.themoviedb.org/reference/movie-details
and use the "&append_to_response=" resource with "credits",
https://developer.themoviedb.org/docs/append-to-response
it may solve your problem.
For example:

https://api.themoviedb.org/3/movie/550?api_key=THE_KEY&language=pt-BR&append_to_response=credits  

In the response you will receive the cast list.
And in each person in the cast you will find the "profile_path" of the person's default image.
That is, the image presented on the person's home page here on TMDb.

credits 
cast    
0   
adult   false
gender  2
id  819
known_for_department    "Acting"
name    "Edward Norton"
original_name   "Edward Norton"
popularity  34.043
profile_path    "/5XBzD5WuTyVQZeS4VI25z2moMeY.jpg"
cast_id 4
character   "The Narrator"
credit_id   "52fe4250c3a36847f80149f3"
order   0
1   
adult   false
gender  2
id  287
known_for_department    "Acting"
name    "Brad Pitt"