Here is a recent discussion giving the current rate limits (last post): https://www.themoviedb.org/talk/63d65d5c20e6a500bc00c482

I don't think there is any way to get movie duration (runtime) without doing an individual movie query. So I guess you would just have to enforce rate limiting in your application when you do the individual movie queries. Someone else may have a better idea.

I do personally think that runtime should be included in the basic movie information that you get from a search or discover, so perhaps you might want to make an enhancement request to do so.

Obviously I don't know exactly what you are doing, but since movie runtime isn't likely to change perhaps you might want to consider caching it locally once you retrieve it for a movie.

Hey I still can't pull duration using the search API, any idea if it will every come to search API, or will I have to use runtime from get details?

Wanted to note that I am also needing this feature. I want to use it to filter out which possible media it could be. And the technical restraints of my system only provide the movie name and duration.

@robbie3999 said:

Here is a recent discussion giving the current rate limits (last post): https://www.themoviedb.org/talk/63d65d5c20e6a500bc00c482

I don't think there is any way to get movie duration (runtime) without doing an individual movie query. So I guess you would just have to enforce rate limiting in your application when you do the individual movie queries. Someone else may have a better idea.

I do personally think that runtime should be included in the basic movie information that you get from a search or discover, so perhaps you might want to make an enhancement request to do so.

Obviously I don't know exactly what you are doing, but since movie runtime isn't likely to change perhaps you might want to consider caching it locally once you retrieve it for a movie.

+1. Absolutely should be included in the basic movie information, and should not require an addition request to the details endpoint for something so trivial.

Why is it so difficult to add this? This can literally be done in a second. Isn't this all just stored in a database, and it's a matter of simple adding one additional field to the endpoint? Forgive me if I'm being crass, just upset with having to deal with a bunch issues with the API for the past few weeks. Is TMDB open-source?