Jaws showing 2022 release_date instead of 1975

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posted by lgrube3
STAFFMOD
on July 25, 2023 at 4:12 PM

Can anyone help me figure out why Jaws object is showing up in the /discover/movie response showing a release_date of 2022?

See following JSON:

{
  "adult": false,
  "backdrop_path": "/xgU3KkqiME9pGe5gGCNpUYkoSWg.jpg",
  "genre_ids": [
    27,
    53,
    12
  ],
  "id": 578,
  "original_language": "en",
  "original_title": "Jaws",
  "overview": "When an insatiable great white shark terrorizes the townspeople of Amity Island, the police chief, an oceanographer and a grizzled shark hunter seek to destroy the blood-thirsty beast.",
  "popularity": 59.195,
  "poster_path": "/lxM6kqilAdpdhqUl2biYp5frUxE.jpg",
  "release_date": "2022-09-02",
  "title": "Jaws",
  "video": false,
  "vote_average": 7.7,
  "vote_count": 9326
}

And here is my /discover query string:

/discover/movie?api_key=[MY_API_KEY]&page=1&sort_by=primary_release_date.desc&with_genres=27&certification=PG|&primary_release_date.gte=1964&primary_release_date.lte=1979-12-31&air_date.gte=1964&air_date.lte=1979-12-31&vote_average.gte=5&vote_average.lte=10&vote_count.gte=120&region=US&watch_region=US&certification_country=US&language=en-US&include_adult=false&with_watch_providers=

5 replies (on page 1 of 1)

Discover is on an old mostly unmaintained part of our infrastructure that doesn't have a lot of the same "smarts" as what is powering the website. As such, this isn't something we're going to be fixing. The plan is for us to migrate discover to the new system that the website is using by the end of the year.

Having said that, you can actually tweak your request to prioritize which release date gets shown with the with_release_type filter.

...&with_release_type=3|2

As an example for theatrical and limited theatrical.

You're making a movie query so you should remove the air_date.lte and air_date.gte filters. Also, primary_release_date.gte expects YYYY-MM-DD format, so you should fix that up too. A good working query looks like so:

https://api.themoviedb.org/3/discover/movie?api_key=###&page=1&sort_by=primary_release_date.desc&with_genres=27&certification=PG&primary_release_date.gte=1964-01-01&primary_release_date.lte=1979-12-31&vote_average.gte=5&vote_average.lte=10&vote_count.gte=120®ion=US&watch_region=US&certification_country=US&language=en-US&include_adult=false&with_release_type=3|2

Cheers.

Reply by lgrube3

STAFFMOD

on July 25, 2023 at 8:51 PM

I really appreciate your response! I will check/fix all of these. Thanks again.

Reply by lgrube3

STAFFMOD

on July 26, 2023 at 10:16 AM

Hey @travisbell is there documentation on &with_release_type? I'd like to better understand how that query works, what are the options, and whether or not it filters results or just updates the release_date of objects.

Thanks!

Reply by Travis Bell

STAFFMOD

on July 26, 2023 at 10:26 AM

Only the first paragraph here (under Advanced Filtering): https://developer.themoviedb.org/reference/discover-movie

Reply by lgrube3

STAFFMOD

on July 26, 2023 at 10:29 AM

I just found this for anyone else who is looking to learn more: https://developer.themoviedb.org/docs/region-support

Release Types
Type Release
1 Premiere
2 Theatrical (limited)
3 Theatrical
4 Digital
5 Physical
6 TV

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