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How to best query all movies
posted by Shadow.88STAFFMOD on October 24, 2014 at 4:29 AM
Hi. I am new to the API, sorry if my question has been answered already. Let's say I want to create a local database with all movies and their corresponding actors and budget/revenue. I read on the forums that it is best to iterate over the movie ids. From what I read in the documentation, you are allowed to make 30 requests every 10 secons. Doesn't this mean it would take like a whole day to get all entries?
best regards :)
Reply by Travis Bell
on October 27, 2014 at 10:20 AM
Hi Shadow.88,
Yes, it probably would take about a day to get the first import with a single IP. We usually encourage more of a cache proxy type scenario where an app would query the API as it is requested and then caching the data for how ever long it makes sense for the app.