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How do I find an actor's id?
posted by oggySTAFFMOD on August 10, 2015 at 12:43 PM
Actor's ids are valuable to fetch information about them, as exposed in this great examples page: https://www.themoviedb.org/documentation/api/discover. However, actor's ids always show up from nowhere, but I'd like to know how these were retrieved in the first place :-) I did see this doc http://docs.themoviedb.apiary.io/#reference/search/searchperson/get but couldn't use it (I tried to use http://api.themoviedb.org/3/search/person=%22tom%20hanks%22?api_key=###), I'm missing something for sure.
Thanks for your help!
Reply by Dale
on August 11, 2015 at 2:59 PM
Hello Oggy,
Think you looking to run a search like this:
http://api.tmdb.org/3/search/person?api_key=KEY&query=tom%20hanks
Hope this helps.
Dale.
Reply by oggy
on August 14, 2015 at 12:24 PM
Great, thanks for your help!
Reply by oggy
on August 17, 2015 at 6:14 AM
From an actor's name, is it then possible to get their filmography?
I know it is possible using the id (something like person/31?api_key=###&append_to_response=credits) but this uses an id...
Thanks in advance.
Reply by Travis Bell
on August 17, 2015 at 6:52 PM
Hi Oggy,
You can't get the credits just from a name, no. You would get their ID and then make the
/person/{ID}call you mentioned above.Cheers.
Reply by oggy
on August 18, 2015 at 4:24 AM
Ok that's what I feared :-)
thanks !