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All Actors Query

posted by Laniemme
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on March 27, 2016 at 2:02 AM

In your recommended app TodoMovies 3, the search screen allows you to display a short list of actors as you start typing in the name. To achieve this would require a list of all actors in the TMDb database but I don't see how to use the API to pull that.

Any advice would be welcome. Thanks and keep up the good work!

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Travis Bell

Reply by  Travis Bell

STAFFMOD

on March 27, 2016 at 11:25 AM

Hi Laniemme,

All of our searches support "autocomplete" by default, so if you were building a UI and say, sending back a query of an input every 1000ms, you can easily build this type of an interface:

https://api.themoviedb.org/3/search/person?api_key=###&query=bra
https://api.themoviedb.org/3/search/person?api_key=###&query=brad
https://api.themoviedb.org/3/search/person?api_key=###&query=brad+p
https://api.themoviedb.org/3/search/person?api_key=###&query=brad+pit
https://api.themoviedb.org/3/search/person?api_key=###&query=brad+pitt

Hope that helps.

Laniemme

Reply by  Laniemme

STAFFMOD

on March 27, 2016 at 11:32 AM

Thanks Travis, I'll give it a try :)

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