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Identifying from the API whether or not a movie or TV show is rateable?
Inlagt av FlixDBSTAFFMOD den 9 februari 2024 vid 9:19 AM
What is the best way of identifying whether a movie or tv show is rateable? For instance, upcoming movies or TV shows should not be ratable. I can see the API allows you to rate it, but it doesn't take effect (from what I can see).
If a movie has not been released, its status property is not "Released". Should I be using that? And if so, what about TV shows?
Or is there another approach, like looking at the release date?
Svar från Travis Bell
den 9 februari 2024 vid 12:01 PM
Hi @FlixDB,
Items become rateable 7 days before their premiere date. Until then, ratings are not accepted.
Svar från FlixDB
den 9 februari 2024 vid 12:13 PM
Hi @travisbell ,
Thanks for getting back to me.
From the API's..i.e. https://developer.themoviedb.org/reference/movie-details or https://developer.themoviedb.org/reference/tv-series-details
What property or properties (or other API) can I use to identify if it's rateable? Are you saying we just need to look at the release date, and it's rateable 7 days prior to that date? Is this what the TMDB website does? or is there anything else that is more efficient?
Svar från Travis Bell
den 9 februari 2024 vid 12:17 PM
In essence, yes. We look for the earliest release date and if it's 7 or less days from now, it's accepted.
For movies, you can use the /release_dates method. For TV, it's either the premiere (first air date) which is the air date of season 1, episode 1, or for TV episodes, simply the air date.