Movie popular request paging issue

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STAFFMOD
发布于 2024 年 03 月 08 日 12:58下午

I am using popular movies request (/3/movie/popular) with pages (/3/movie/popular?page=1, /3/movie/popular?page=2 etc.) and API returns same movies on different pages.

curl --request GET \
     --url 'https://api.themoviedb.org/3/movie/popular?language=en-US&page=1' \
     --header 'Authorization: Bearer  TOKEN' \
     --header 'accept: application/json'

Response ends with

{
  "page": 1,
  "results": [
    .... SOME MOVIES HERE ...
    {
      "adult": false,
      "backdrop_path": "/i1Lx1Whonfh8awXkYx3bGinK2V8.jpg",
      "genre_ids": [
        28,
        53
      ],
      "id": 872542,
      "original_language": "en",
      "original_title": "Agent Game",
      "overview": "Harris, a CIA interrogator at an Agency black site, finds himself the target of a rendition operation after being scapegoated for an interrogation gone horribly wrong. As the team tasked to bring Harris in begins to question their orders -- and each other --Olsen, a senior intelligence officer, and his subordinate, Visser, raise the stakes. Now, it's up to Harris and some newfound allies to uncover the truth and turn the tables.",
      "popularity": 501.754,
      "poster_path": "/qXJFjgcV7ESRHUSxZiBA4PzRMIx.jpg",
      "release_date": "2022-04-08",
      "title": "Agent Game",
      "video": false,
      "vote_average": 5,
      "vote_count": 74
    }
  ],
  "total_pages": 42872,
  "total_results": 857421
}

and the second page

curl --request GET \
     --url 'https://api.themoviedb.org/3/movie/popular?language=en-US&page=2' \
     --header 'Authorization: Bearer  TOKEN' \
     --header 'accept: application/json'

starts with same id 872542

{
  "page": 2,
  "results": [
    {
      "adult": false,
      "backdrop_path": "/mOQV573Tr0WxI2VVOLKwtfaRGZH.jpg",
      "genre_ids": [
        10749,
        35,
        12
      ],
      "id": 949429,
      "original_language": "th",
      "original_title": "ผจญภัยล่าขุมทรัพย์หมื่นลี้",
      "overview": "Joy, a secretary at a large multinational company, has an online shopping problem, likes to read adventure novels and watch travel and adventure shows. She daydreams about living a life of adventure.",
      "popularity": 511.393,
      "poster_path": "/z3SeS4wjKQ3TjHSvRidovGJbHYb.jpg",
      "release_date": "2023-12-22",
      "title": "The Adventures",
      "video": false,
      "vote_average": 6.364,
      "vote_count": 11
    },
    {
      "adult": false,
      "backdrop_path": "/i1Lx1Whonfh8awXkYx3bGinK2V8.jpg",
      "genre_ids": [
        28,
        53
      ],
      "id": 872542,
      "original_language": "en",
      "original_title": "Agent Game",
      "overview": "Harris, a CIA interrogator at an Agency black site, finds himself the target of a rendition operation after being scapegoated for an interrogation gone horribly wrong. As the team tasked to bring Harris in begins to question their orders -- and each other --Olsen, a senior intelligence officer, and his subordinate, Visser, raise the stakes. Now, it's up to Harris and some newfound allies to uncover the truth and turn the tables.",
      "popularity": 501.754,
      "poster_path": "/qXJFjgcV7ESRHUSxZiBA4PzRMIx.jpg",
      "release_date": "2022-04-08",
      "title": "Agent Game",
      "video": false,
      "vote_average": 5,
      "vote_count": 74
    }
.... OTHER MOVIES HERE ....
  ],
  "total_pages": 42873,
  "total_results": 857454
}

Is this behaviour ok for API or I missed something in documentation?

4 回复（第 1 页，共 1 页）

The data in the backend is refreshed once a day but during the refresh period there can be calls to any page number. If that page isn't in the cache yet, it will get cached which means that pages can be cached with either new or old results.

We make no guarantees of this not happening, and you should not treat every page as containing unique items that haven't been returned before it.

DDZZ虞小仙的回复

STAFFMOD

于 2024 年 05 月 11 日 9:27上午

I'd like to get a number of movie info for my academical research, but find that only 500 pages can be loaded, which are far less than my demand. If it would be possible to load more data?

superboy97 的回复

STAFFMOD

于 2024 年 05 月 11 日 10:44上午

If you need more than 10000 movies (500 pages), you should use the Daily export file.

DDZZ虞小仙的回复

STAFFMOD

于 2024 年 05 月 19 日 3:20上午

@superboy97 said:

If you need more than 10000 movies (500 pages), you should use the Daily export file.

Thanks a lot. I have already solved the issue~

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