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Unexpected field when appending seasons to tv series
posted by KlemensasSTAFFMOD on July 12, 2023 at 7:02 AM
The following call: https://api.themoviedb.org/3/tv/424?append_to_response=season%2F0&language=en-US gives a result where the seasons have an extra field vote_average, which isn't documented and neither returned when calling the specific season endpoint. Is this intended or a bug?
"seasons": [
{
"air_date": "2011-07-05",
"episode_count": 12,
"id": 1238,
"name": "Specials",
"overview": "",
"poster_path": "/o2zvOndMQNZNUntDlwslfb23ifR.jpg",
"season_number": 0,
"vote_average": 0 // <----- unexpected field
},
...
]
Reply by Justin
on July 12, 2023 at 7:15 AM
That would be the average rating for all the seasons. If it is 0 that is because no one has voted for it here. TMDB only uses onsite ratings so it's bound to show as 0 for a lot of stuff in the vast database.
Reply by Klemensas
on July 12, 2023 at 11:38 AM
As per https://developer.themoviedb.org/reference/tv-season-details, a season does not have such a field
Reply by robbie3999
on July 12, 2023 at 12:12 PM
Ok, I see on the Trello board that this looks to be a recently added feature. I don't see any way to actually vote on a season and I also don't see a vote count so I would guess this is some kind of average of the episodes?
So I'm guessing that the doc for the TV series details didn't get updated. And the feature itself didn't get added to the TV season details endpoint.
Reply by Travis Bell
on July 13, 2023 at 6:41 PM
Hi @Klemensas, @robbie3999 is right, that's a recently added feature. The docs have now been updated.
Cheers.