I was wondering if it's possible to get a random movie from a category ?
I'm doing a mobile app where you can like or dislike a movie that appears randomly after the user chooses a category,
For example :
For action, for example (with category number 28) : I was thinking to use:
https://api.themoviedb.org/3/discover/movie?api_key=<key>&language=fr-FR&include_adult=false&with_genres=28&page=<randomNumber>
and generate a random number to put after "page=" and then picking a film among the ones returned ?...
Thanks,
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Reply by talestalker
on November 6, 2019 at 2:15 PM
You can't get a random movie directly from TMDB API, so your approach is correct . I would only add "&sort_by=popularity.desc" to sort the results by popularity to get more relevant results and then choose randomly from let's say first 1000 records.
Reply by elqunchenamour
on April 1, 2023 at 2:18 AM
how do you get the first 1000 records in the url ?
Reply by talestalker
on April 1, 2023 at 4:02 AM
The results are paginated by 20 and you can access any page using "&page=" parameter, so you should generate a random number from 1-1000 then get the corresponding page (page = random_number DIV 20) and finally get the corresponding result from the downloaded page (item = random_number MOD 20).
Reply by elqunchenamour
on April 1, 2023 at 10:05 AM
Thank you for the answer bro
Reply by elqunchenamour
on April 1, 2023 at 10:08 AM
thank you talestaker, this means a lot to me