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Exhaustive list of ids API
posted by jokerontherocksSTAFFMOD on July 22, 2021 at 4:06 PM
Hi, I see in the APIs that there are API calls for retrieving genre details for a genre id, movie details for a movie id, series details for a TV series, etc. Where do I get an exhaustive list of all the ids to begin with? That is, a list of all the available movie ids (which naturally keep changing as more movies get added or some movies get deleted), or a list of all TV series ids, , or a list of person ids? If I use the "discovery" API for movies with all available genre ids, and do a union of all those movies, will that yield the exhaustive list of movies (that assumes that all movies must have at least one genre and all such genres for all such movies will have ids belonging to the list of available genre ids)?
Reply by talestalker
on July 22, 2021 at 10:21 PM
You can use daily file exports.
Reply by jokerontherocks
on July 23, 2021 at 7:50 AM
Thanks. I tried this URL: http://files.tmdb.org/p/exports/movie_ids_04_28_2017.json.gz?api_key=my_key, I am getting this error:
Reply by talestalker
on July 23, 2021 at 8:19 AM
That old export file from 2017 is gone. Try this:
http://files.tmdb.org/p/exports/movie_ids_07_23_2021.json.gz
And you don't have to add
api_keyparametr.Reply by jokerontherocks
on July 23, 2021 at 3:06 PM
Aha. Got it. Thanks!!