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Retrieving a part of the database based on language or origin criteria
posted by bernardofbbragaSTAFFMOD on September 21, 2015 at 6:01 PM
Hello, I'm currently trying to replicate the brazilian movies in my local database. I am currently parsing through the movies one by one as suggested here: https://www.themoviedb.org/talk/52e7eb18760ee3244902ac8d I keep the movies produced in brazil and with portuguese as the original language. It is taking a long time to process with the 40 requests/10 seconds rule and I'm not getting many hits because some Brazilian movies are not tagged as such. Is there a way to query the database to get specific results such as the ones I'm looking for? I guess Discover would be an option but the 1000 page limit doesn't allow this method to be good enough for me
thank you
Reply by Travis Bell
on September 22, 2015 at 11:00 AM
Hi bernardofbbraga,
Unfortunately there isn't really a great way to do this right now. I think you're looking for ticket #464. It is really the only way you could accurately get the information you're looking for.
Reply by bernardofbbraga
on September 22, 2015 at 11:39 AM
Yes, most likely. I've created an account and I'm watching that ticket now, thanks.
For reference to future people with a problem similar as mine: I've managed to find a list of brazilian movie names in wikipedia and I'm picking them by name, which kind of deals with the problem of some movies not having language or release data and is a much faster approach. Caveat, there still may be movies in themoviedb that are not in the wikipedia list (and there are movies in the list which are not in themoviedb).
Reply by Travis Bell
on December 5, 2016 at 6:51 PM
Hi @bernardofbbraga I just added a
with_original_languagefilter.Cheers.