@joaopabdala said:

But if my user doesn't type the year of the movie: https://api.themoviedb.org/3/search/movie?query=Lucky+Star It returns data for this series: https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/42500-lucky-star

Are you sure of the query you have sent ? In my case, using that query, I got this movie as the top result : https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/18707

@superboy97 said:

@joaopabdala said:

But if my user doesn't type the year of the movie: https://api.themoviedb.org/3/search/movie?query=Lucky+Star It returns data for this series: https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/42500-lucky-star

Are you sure of the query you have sent ? In my case, using that query, I got this movie as the top result : https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/18707

Yes, I literally copy pasted it from here https://developer.themoviedb.org/reference/search-movie.

I got your result if I use https://api.themoviedb.org/3/search/multi instead of https://api.themoviedb.org/3/search/movie

It seems to me that Superboy97's guess is what is happening.
Your programming code should be with search/multi and not with search/movie.
Only you can check that.

But it is good to warn you about another problem.
The number of homonymous films is large.
Adding the year of the film reduces the error considerably.

My plan is to search for the movie using the TMDB API, get the first result, and save the title and year from TMDB to facilitate data analysis.

But expecting that without the year the film searched for will be the first on the list is a mistake.
The older or less famous the greater the chance that the film will not be in the first place in the answer.

@superboy97 said:

I got your result if I use https://api.themoviedb.org/3/search/multi instead of https://api.themoviedb.org/3/search/movie

It didn't worked for me. Maybe it's a region filter doing it. I tried to do url = "https://api.themoviedb.org/3/search/movie?query=Lucky%20Star&include_adult=false&language=en-US&page=1" and got https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/18707 (just as you got earlier), but when I useurl = "https://api.themoviedb.org/3/search/movie?query=Lucky%20Star&include_adult=false&language=pt-BR&page=1" I get https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/105981-lucky-star (which is very strange, because Lucky Star is a US movie, but i'm not sure if the top result should appear according to language)

@ticao2 said:

It seems to me that Superboy97's guess is what is happening.
Your programming code should be with search/multi and not with search/movie.
Only you can check that.

But it is good to warn you about another problem.
The number of homonymous films is large.
Adding the year of the film reduces the error considerably.

My plan is to search for the movie using the TMDB API, get the first result, and save the title and year from TMDB to facilitate data analysis.

But expecting that without the year the film searched for will be the first on the list is a mistake.
The older or less famous the greater the chance that the film will not be in the first place in the answer.

I'm actually doing a list for each decade, so maybe I'll try to get all the results and filter to the ones that are between the decades. I think there isn't much more I can do if the user don't add the year. Thanks for the answers you all.