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Get list of movies by movie IDs
posted by damatesSTAFFMOD on July 8, 2018 at 2:20 PM
Hello,
I would like to ask you if is a possible to get more then one movie by ids? For example a request /get/movies_id=1222,3344,3222,1223. Thank you.
Reply by Travis Bell
on July 9, 2018 at 12:17 PM
This is not possible right now although I do have an open ticket for it. I am not sure when I will have time to get to it but I can update this post when it's complete.
The only thing you can do right now is iterate over each ID individually.
Reply by damates
on July 10, 2018 at 3:13 AM
Nice. Will be great if in a future API will have this functionality. I will make a function with iterate over each all IDs now. Thank you very much.
Reply by Chris Krueger
on July 13, 2018 at 2:01 PM
That would be really great! :)
Reply by themoviebrutha
on August 15, 2019 at 2:54 AM
Is there a way yet to get a list of the Movie IDs available from the database? I'd like to get a list of MPAA ratings but I don't know the Movie IDs so how can I run the request?
Reply by Chris Krueger
on August 16, 2019 at 2:49 PM
Not yet, it isn't possible to get multiple movies by IDs. We also need it for our app Moviebase
You can see current features on Trello
Reply by themoviebrutha
on August 18, 2019 at 5:43 PM
Ok thanks, I'd like to acquire the MPAA ratings, I'm working on a stat model and would like to incorporate the ratings into my evaluation. If you know of a way I can acquire that data pls let me know, I do have the IMDB ids for my films.... thanks!!
Reply by Travis Bell
on August 18, 2019 at 5:56 PM
Hi @themoviebrutha You can get the MPAA ratings from a movie by calling the /release_dates method. Make sure to give the docs around
append_to_responsea read through.To know the IDs, you can either search for an item (workflow described here) or use our daily ID exports.
Reply by themoviebrutha
on August 19, 2019 at 2:26 AM
If I iterate through IDs (which would work for me) what is the range of ID numbers so I know what IDs to use?
Reply by Travis Bell
on August 19, 2019 at 1:04 PM
You can get the range by looking at the exports I linked to above. This is one of the key use cases for these files.