@falez said:

My app uses /search to search for TV show and movie information. However, the responses do not contain any of the following properties:

• imdb_id {both movies and TV shows}
• runtime {movies}
• episode_runtime[0} (does anybody know what type of data is stored in this array?) || last_episode_to_air.runtime {TV shows}
• number_of_seasons {TV shows}
• number_of_episodes {TV shows}

I came across the 'append to response' section in the documentation,
but none of the requests below append any information to the response. Does anybody know why? What am I doing wrong?

Does not work with Search.
Only with the Details method, using the Movie, TV Show or Person item ID.
See
https://developer.themoviedb.org/docs/append-to-response

append_to_response is an easy and efficient way to append extra requests to any top level namespace. The movie, TV show, TV season, TV episode and person detail methods all support a query parameter called append_to_response.

@ticao2 said:

Shucks! I guess I am forced to make 2 separate requests then :(

Thanks for the information.

@ticao2 said:

@falez said:

TV show details: response.episode_runtime[0}

Any idea what type of data this array contains? And in what format? So far, it has always returned an empty array for every TV show that I have searched for.

@falez said:

@falez said: > TV show details: response.episode_runtime[0}

Any idea what type of data this array contains?
And in what format?
So far, it has always returned an empty array for every TV show that I have searched for.

Many years ago, when TMDb was born, there was only the runtime value of a standard episode of a TV series.
In the past, when broadcast TV was the norm, this value was more respected by producers.
The runtime differences between episodes of a series were minimal.
There were laws determining how much advertising or commercial time the broadcasters could show per hour of programming.
If I remember correctly, some countries it was 12 minutes per hour and others it was 8 minutes per hour.

With the advent of Cable TV and Streaming, everything changed.
So users asked for a runtime field to be added with a specific value for each episode.
This field was added to the database about 2 years ago.
If this field is blank, it is because no user has added the value.
The format should be minutes.

@ticao2 said:

@falez said:

@falez said: > TV show details: response.episode_runtime[0}

Any idea what type of data this array contains?
And in what format?
So far, it has always returned an empty array for every TV show that I have searched for.

Many years ago, when TMDb was born, there was only the runtime value of a standard episode of a TV series.
In the past, when broadcast TV was the norm, this value was more respected by producers.
The runtime differences between episodes of a series were minimal.
There were laws determining how much advertising or commercial time the broadcasters could show per hour of programming.
If I remember correctly, some countries it was 12 minutes per hour and others it was 8 minutes per hour.

With the advent of Cable TV and Streaming, everything changed.
So users asked for a runtime field to be added with a specific value for each episode.
This field was added to the database about 2 years ago.
If this field is blank, it is because no user has added the value.
The format should be minutes.

hm, so is response.episode_runtime an array that contains the runtime of each episode as a number?

@falez said:

hm, so is response.episode_runtime an array that contains the runtime of each episode as a number?

I think so. In minutes.
Of course, some user needs to add this data.

@ticao2 said:

@falez said:

hm, so is response.episode_runtime an array that contains the runtime of each episode as a number?

I think so. In minutes.
Of course, some user needs to add this data.

Ah, I see. Thanks again for your help!!