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image url no longer requires api_key?
posted by TonySTAFFMOD on October 25, 2016 at 5:26 AM
Hi,
This weekend my website suddenly stopped displaying all images (posters and backdrops) and it turns out to be a problem with adding the &api_key= suffix to the image url. I've always suffixed the api_key which I think used to be required:
http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w185/e6nQFLsLP60Erv41JE4QrsEgJbI.jpg&api_key={myApiKey}
This now fails and I need to remove the api key... is this a recent change or perhaps an error?
Thanks Tony
Reply by Travis Bell
on October 25, 2016 at 10:07 AM
Hi Tony,
Images never required an API key but we did start enforcing some stricter URI filtering because of some bad clients that were hammering our image service with bad requests (> 1000 requests per second to images that don't exist).
If you remove the API key from your requests OR, correctly call the URL like so:
You should be good to go.