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Videos != Trailers: Database out of Sync ?
posted by baurianSTAFFMOD on May 15, 2016 at 11:17 AM
Hi,
today I fixed some movie trailer ids as the old ones were broken. This worked fine and the website showed the new trailer immediately, however Kodi still fetched the old trailer URL. So I started some digging and found the following "weird" behaviour:
http://api.tmdb.org/3/movie/9282/videos?api_key=[KEY]&language=de Show's the updated URL (and only this one which should be fine as I deleted the old entry)
http://api.tmdb.org/3/movie/9282/trailers?api_key=[KEY]&language=de However still shows the old trailer URL
My first thought was that the API uses a different database that is only synced with the Web-Database from time to time but in that case both api calls should show either the old or the new trailer. I'm new to TMDB so maybe I made an mistake while updating, but for me the situation looks faulty.
Greetings, Baurian
Reply by Travis Bell
on May 15, 2016 at 11:36 AM
Hi Baurian,
The API has a cache of approx. ~8 hours. You will have to wait until the cache expires to see any new data.
/trailers was likely cached already while /videos probably wasn't.
Reply by baurian
on May 15, 2016 at 11:39 AM
Ah.. that explains the situation.
Thanks for the fast reply and for keeping the service up.