Trying set movie favorite , getting 404 error

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posted by dshalom03
STAFFMOD
on March 19, 2015 at 7:53 PM

Hi, can anybody help ?, I keep geting status code 34 , "The resource you requested could not be found." errors.

I am trying to set a movie favorite. The url im using is:

https://api.themoviedb.org/3/movie/favorite?api_key=xxx&session_id=xxx

and im sending this message body:

{
    "media\_type": "movie",
    "media\_id": "50963-deep-jaws",
    "favorite": true
}

Is there something im doing wrong ? Thanks.

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Reply by dshalom03

STAFFMOD

on March 20, 2015 at 6:07 AM

Hi, ive tried that too and its not working still. Looking at the documentation im not sure if the request url needs to be"

https://api.themoviedb.org/3/movie/favorite?api_key=xxx&session_id=xxx or https://api.themoviedb.org/3/account/movie/favorite?api_key=xxx&session_id=xxx or https://api.themoviedb.org/3/50963/favorite?api_key=xxx&session_id=xxx

Can anyone tell me ?

Reply by Travis Bell

STAFFMOD

on March 20, 2015 at 1:07 PM

Roby's example won't quite work as you need to pass the media_id in as an integer, but you also need to be interacting with the account, not a movie.

curl -H "Accept: application/json" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d \
  "{'media_type': 'movie', 'media_id': 550, 'favorite': true}" \
  "https://api.themoviedb.org/3/account/{ID}/favorite?api_key=###&session_id=###"

Note the {ID} variable you need to replace along with the api_key and session_id.

Great thanks for you help, its working for me now. One thing I've noticed is that adding a favourite works instantly but so far removing a favourite by setting favourite to false in the request has not worked, do you know why that is ?.

Reply by Travis Bell

STAFFMOD

on March 21, 2015 at 9:50 AM

Hi dshalom03,

I'm not sure as my tests are working properly. To be sure, you're setting it as a boolean and not a string, correct? Both of these calls are working for me (you can easily see it working on the website):

curl -H "Accept: application/json" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d \
    "{'media_type': 'movie', 'media_id': 550, 'favorite': true}" \
    "https://api.themoviedb.org/3/account/{ID}/favorite?api_key=###&session_id=###"

curl -H "Accept: application/json" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d \
    "{'media_type': 'movie', 'media_id': 550, 'favorite': false}" \
    "https://api.themoviedb.org/3/account/{ID}/favorite?api_key=###&session_id=###"

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