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search upcoming tv series episodes matching a particular actor
posted by expntlySTAFFMOD on April 19, 2015 at 10:29 PM
Is there a way I could figure out the upcoming tv series episodes a particular actor is going to play, or at least which show? This is more of a search query, in the sense that I don't know in advance which actor (or which show) the user is going to request.
I tried /person/{id}/tv_credits but that's not helping apparently, e.g. http://api.themoviedb.org/3/person/17286/tv_credits (17286 is actress "Lena Headey") doesn't show me the upcoming episodes she's going to play (or the current season) in Game of Thrones
https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/1399-game-of-thrones/season/5/episode/9
Thanks!
Reply by Travis Bell
on April 20, 2015 at 5:28 PM
Hi expntly,
I'm not sure how or if we will support any kind of episode queries yet. A couple people have asked about episode searching, but then there could be an argument for an episode discover method too. Perhaps if I hook up a
next_air_dateparameter to/discover/tvand then hook up thewith_peoplemethod like it exists on movies already, you could get something close to what you're looking for. I've created a ticket to think about this here.Cheers.