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Most popular movies starring an actor .
posted by WaldoJeffersSTAFFMOD on August 29, 2014 at 8:22 AM
Hello,
I am looking for a way to retrieve the most popular movies starring an actor, or in which a person has participated, whether as crew or cast member. My goal is to provide a short list (of say, 5 items) of the most popular movies a person is known for.
I first tried to retrieve all the movies in which a person was involved, via /person/{id}/movie_credits, and then sort them by popularity, but to my surprise, the popularity property is not available using this method, contrary to /search/movie for example.
Do I have to get all these movies, and then make subsequent requests via /movie/{id} to retrieve each movie's popularity, and then eventually sort my list of movies by popularity ?
Am I missing something ?
Thank you very much for your help !
Reply by Travis Bell
on September 3, 2014 at 9:57 AM
Hi WaldoJeffers,
You're not missing anything, it isn't really possible right now.
Once I complete this ticket, the popularity would be part of the response and you could do what you would like. I'm not entirely sure when I will get to it but it is on my list.
Cheers.
Reply by WaldoJeffers
on September 8, 2014 at 9:22 AM
Hi Travis,
Ok, thanks for your answer. Hope you'll find the time to do that :) Ticket bookmarked !
Reply by Travis Bell
on July 21, 2017 at 11:05 AM
All of our person credit calls are returning the standard media objects now. Examples can be found in the API docs.