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How would I search movies that are between X and Y year? I see that there is only a year field. Is it possible to search between a range of years?

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You can use /discover to do this. An example:

https://api.themoviedb.org/3/discover/movie?api_key=###&primary_release_date.gte=2020-10-01&primary_release_date.lte=2020-10-15

You could also combine this with a region if you want to find movies released in the US for example:

https://api.themoviedb.org/3/discover/movie?api_key=###&release_date.gte=2020-10-01&release_date.lte=2020-10-15&region=US

The docs have more information about the filters you can use.

@travisbell said:

You can use /discover to do this. An example:

https://api.themoviedb.org/3/discover/movie?api_key=###&primary_release_date.gte=2020-10-01&primary_release_date.lte=2020-10-15

You could also combine this with a region if you want to find movies released in the US for example:

https://api.themoviedb.org/3/discover/movie?api_key=###&release_date.gte=2020-10-01&release_date.lte=2020-10-15&region=US

The docs have more information about the filters you can use.

Thanks for the reply.

I'm aware of the discovery filtering system. What I'm looking for is to search between years (integer) and not dates (string). Is that possible?

For example, search for movies between the year 2010 and 2012.

Sure, just use YYYY-01-01/YYYY-12-31:

https://api.themoviedb.org/3/discover/movie?api_key=###&primary_release_date.gte=2020-01-01&primary_release_date.lte=2020-12-31

That will query 2020 for you. Obviously scale that to whatever years you want, no problem.

The primary release date is cool.

@travisbell said:

You can use /discover to do this. An example:

https://api.themoviedb.org/3/discover/movie?api_key=###&primary_release_date.gte=2020-10-01&primary_release_date.lte=2020-10-15

You could also combine this with a region if you want to find movies released in the US for example:

https://api.themoviedb.org/3/discover/movie?api_key=###&release_date.gte=2020-10-01&release_date.lte=2020-10-15&region=US

The docs have more information about the filters you can use.

Please i want to search for movies by title, after all setup, the api returns nothing at all

Hi @bitPascals, what is the URL you are calling that returns no results? Replace your api key with a string like "API_KEY" or "xxxxxx".

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