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How to get trailer link from particular id.
posted by RamkumarSTAFFMOD on October 30, 2014 at 3:42 AM
Hi how to display trailer from particular movie say for eg: from upcoming movies if selected one movie, where I need to display video trailer. How to get that link.
Thanks.
Reply by Flixmag
on May 13, 2017 at 11:12 AM
I am trying to show a trailer from your api response. Could you kindly expound your point...with some code. What I want is to click on a link and show that trailer...I have picked and displayed all data... now I want for someone to view a trailer if available.
Reply by Travis Bell
on May 13, 2017 at 11:59 AM
I can't provide you with any code examples, all I can say is how you can call the data, which was explained in my other post. If you're having trouble with your local code (how to parse JSON, use the YouTube API or SDK, etc...), I would suggest posting on something like Stack Overflow.
Reply by Flixmag
on May 13, 2017 at 2:01 PM
Okay thanks will figure it out once i mess around.
Reply by Flixmag
on May 13, 2017 at 4:07 PM
Thanks man! did it big time!
Reply by ArtanE
on June 11, 2017 at 12:28 AM
Hi Travis, Is there a way to get the link for each movie that is in the json? (full video movie) such as
www.example.com/movie.mp4. Or the only way is to get just the trailer from youtube? Thank you for your great support.Reply by Travis Bell
on June 11, 2017 at 10:48 AM
Hi @ArtanE,
We only have links to the YouTube IDs, nothing more.
Reply by yuukikiyoko
on July 14, 2017 at 3:47 PM
Expanding on @lanre point, is there a way to get the splash/preview image that is used for videos (the image that is displayed with a play button over it)? I would like to display a picture that has the play button on it, to let people know that click on the image will take them to the actual video
Reply by arung
on August 17, 2017 at 7:21 PM
r = requests.get('https://api.themoviedb.org/3/movie/' + tmdb_id, params={ 'api_key': TMDB_API_KEY, 'append_to_response': 'videos' })
@travisbell is this the format that is required?
Reply by Travis Bell
on August 18, 2017 at 12:10 PM
@arung The format to get a list of video IDs for a given media object using append to response is as follows, yes:
Reply by Mohab
on September 13, 2017 at 1:44 PM
@travisbell so what is the format for most popular movies videos or top rated movies videos when i used append to response the given result videos is false
Reply by Asad Mukhtar
on November 19, 2017 at 7:05 AM
Hi, All I use this link, but its does`t contain any video url or video id that use to play video...
https://api.themoviedb.org/3/movie/284053?api_key=###&apprend_to_response=videos
Reply by billybobbob
on November 21, 2017 at 11:23 PM
This doesn't seem to work for all movies. For example, the movie with ID=11111 returns this:
{"results"=>[{"id"=>"533ec66dc3a3685448001df8", "iso_639_1"=>"en", "iso_3166_1"=>"US", "key"=>"593", "name"=>"Trailer 1", "site"=>"YouTube", "size"=>360, "type"=>"Trailer"}]}
But there is no such video on YouTube as:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=593
What gives?
Reply by Travis Bell
on November 22, 2017 at 10:06 AM
That's not a valid YouTube id, so whatever movie you got that from has a bad id. I believe YouTube keys are 11 characters.
Reply by billybobbob
on November 22, 2017 at 12:16 PM
Indeed, I did notice that it was not a valid YouTube ID.
My question was more along the lines of - when do I know I can trust the data I'm getting from the API?
Reply by Travis Bell
on November 22, 2017 at 2:04 PM
In this case, you can check for keys to be 11 characters client side and show/hide data that way. I have an open ticket to do some validation when the data gets added.
At a bigger scale, the short answer is you can't. TMDb is 100% crowd sourced. Users add all sorts of strange data. Our moderators do their best to lock, validate and clean up data but they're all volunteer and have lives and jobs of their own. We are simply thankful for any time they can afford to help.