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Duplicates on trending and other pages
posted by joopANDcoSTAFFMOD on March 7, 2023 at 3:58 PM
Quite annoying, there are duplicates on many pages. Or so it seems on my end.
- https://api.themoviedb.org/3/trending/tv/week?api_key=***&page=6
- https://api.themoviedb.org/3/trending/tv/week?api_key=***&page=7
Murdaugh Murders - is at the bottom of page 6, and first of page 7. There are many of these when I do an API request. Is this a known issue or am I doing something wrong? I see them also on popular, top rated for both movies and tvshows. To clarify, I see Murdaugh duplicates. with Id : 218530
after looking into it more I notice more:
- https://api.themoviedb.org/3/trending/movie/day?api_key=***&page=3
- https://api.themoviedb.org/3/trending/movie/day?api_key=***&page=4
movie id : 929614 & movie id : 705996 & 597 all on page 3 and 4
Reply by joopANDco
on March 9, 2023 at 3:25 AM
I added a filter in my code to filter duplicates. But I am still wondering if this is expected behaviour ?
thanks in advance, J
Reply by lgrube3
on July 16, 2023 at 7:03 PM
I'm also seeing duplicates in the trending API call between pages. Anyone know if this fix is in the backlog?
Reply by Travis Bell
on July 17, 2023 at 10:59 AM
There isn't really anything to "fix" per se, this is about when the data refreshes and what data was already cached. Each request can be cached in multiple places (CDN and at the origin) so depending when things expire and you grab the fresh page, the order might be different by then.
Reply by lgrube3
on July 19, 2023 at 3:21 AM
Okay thanks for the update. I will filter duplicates on the front-end.