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Discover API has been giving unexpected (empty) results recently
posted by nor_direct_0wSTAFFMOD on February 23, 2024 at 10:07 AM
For the past several days certain API calls to Discover have been giving zero results when they shouldn't. Some examples below:
The three requests below are pages 34, 35 and 36 of what should be 518 pages of results. However the request for page 35 gives zero results.
https://api.themoviedb.org/3/discover/movie?include_adult=false&include_video=false&language=en-US&page=34&sort_by=popularity.desc&watch_region=us&with_watch_providers=9
https://api.themoviedb.org/3/discover/movie?include_adult=false&include_video=false&language=en-US&page=35&sort_by=popularity.desc&watch_region=us&with_watch_providers=9
https://api.themoviedb.org/3/discover/movie?include_adult=false&include_video=false&language=en-US&page=36&sort_by=popularity.desc&watch_region=us&with_watch_providers=9
Furthermore, I am unable to combine with_watch_providers and with_watch_montization_types in a single request, if I do I am again met with zero results:
This request works as expected
https://api.themoviedb.org/3/discover/movie?include_adult=false&include_video=false&language=en-US&page=1&sort_by=popularity.desc&watch_region=us&with_watch_providers=9
However when I add with_watch_montization_types=flatrate as below, the result is zero results.
https://api.themoviedb.org/3/discover/movie?include_adult=false&include_video=false&language=en-US&page=1&sort_by=popularity.desc&watch_region=us&with_watch_monetization_types=flatrate&with_watch_providers=9
Is the Discover API undergoing some difficulty/work at the moment?
Reply by Travis Bell
on February 23, 2024 at 11:04 AM
Hi @nor_direct_0w,
The first 3 acting weird is probably because you (or someone else) is getting pages cached with lower cased country codes which is invalid. You should be querying regions with an uppercase value like this:
I'll look into making sure these no results page are not cached. But from here on in, make sure you query with uppercase values.
With regards to your second issues, with
with_watch_montization_types, that is a known limitation when querying withwith_watch_monetization_types. I have an open ticket for that here.Reply by nor_direct_0w
on February 23, 2024 at 11:52 AM
Perfect, thanks!