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Genre structure
posted by hennesjeanSTAFFMOD on January 15, 2014 at 11:37 AM
Guys! girls, I am having problems understanding website structure tmdb.
I have an oldskool movie library and trying to match up with genres on tmdb. Can someone tell me the genre structure? For example:
https://www.themoviedb.org/genre/10749-romance Does this include all movies in this genre?
Reply by Travis Bell
on January 16, 2014 at 10:38 AM
Hi hennesjean,
No, the genre pages won't show every single movie since I think we only show movies that have 5 or more votes.
Truthfully, the genre pages are quite outdated. They haven't got much love in a few years. They definitely need a spring cleaning so to speak.
Cheers.
Reply by hennesjean
on January 16, 2014 at 11:51 AM
I see, no problem. Is there any other way to get a full list of movies based on either category/year?
Reply by Travis Bell
on January 16, 2014 at 11:59 AM
On the website, or API?
Website, not currently.
API, yes, you can use the /genre/:id/movies method with the
?include_all_movies=trueparam.I'm thinking moving forward, a much better way to display these moves would be show all but order them by popularity. That way they'll all be visible but also naturally show the more prominent films first.
I've created a new ticket for this here.
Reply by Travis Bell
on March 27, 2014 at 12:26 PM
FYI—We improved the genre pages last month. They now show all movies and can also now be sorted.
Cheers.