Updating favorites doesn't work anymore

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posted by simonferndriger
STAFFMOD
on July 29, 2024 at 9:52 AM

If I'm not mistaken, the following POST request did work earlier, but doesn't anymore?

https://api.themoviedb.org/3/account/[###]/favorite?api_key=[###] with the data:

        {
          favorite: true,
          media_id: 123,
          media_type: 'movie',
        },

I get the response {"success":false,"status_code":34,"status_message":"The resource you requested could not be found."}

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Reply by simonferndriger

STAFFMOD

on July 29, 2024 at 12:53 PM

By the way, on the https://www.themoviedb.org/u/simonferndriger/favorites page the favorite toggle button doesn't work either. It only works on the detail page.

Reply by simonferndriger

STAFFMOD

on July 30, 2024 at 12:29 AM

Is this a known issue and somebody already working on it or are you as surprised as I am?

Reply by simonferndriger

STAFFMOD

on July 31, 2024 at 12:55 PM

Anyone?

Reply by Travis Bell

STAFFMOD

on August 1, 2024 at 11:21 AM

What's the media_id you are passing in?

I am not seeing any issues:

Add to favourites

curl --location 'https://api.themoviedb.org/3/account/{ID}/favorite?api_key=###&session_id=###' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data '{ "media_type": "movie", "media_id": 16, "favorite": true }'

Response

{"success":true,"status_code":1,"status_message":"Success."}

Remove from favourites

curl --location 'https://api.themoviedb.org/3/account/{ID}/favorite?api_key=###&session_id=###' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data '{ "media_type": "movie", "media_id": 16, "favorite": false }'

Response

{"success":true,"status_code":13,"status_message":"The item/record was deleted successfully."}

Reply by simonferndriger

STAFFMOD

on August 2, 2024 at 11:24 PM

I'm sorry, you're right! Now it works like it should. Don't know what the issue was before unfortunately, but I can imagine there was something wrong with the account id at first...

PS: But I can say that the media_id doesn't seem to matter when trying it on the tmdb website itself. See screen recording here: https://go.screenpal.com/watch/cZjeeqVPSoL - There I tried it for example for 205596, and it only worked on the detail page https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/205596-the-imitation-game but NOT on my favorites page https://www.themoviedb.org/u/simonferndriger/favorites

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