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Collection Cannonballrun not returning movies in collection
posted by RobSTAFFMOD on November 9, 2016 at 8:20 PM
Greetings and thanks for a great site and API. Occasionally I get issues when retrieving Collection info, where there are no movies listed that belong in the collection.
Example here is Cannonball Run. https://api.themoviedb.org/3/collection/101688?api_key=******
Returns:
{
"id": 101688,
"name": "Cannonball Run Collection",
"overview": "A series of films which revolve around an eccentric group of competitors in wild and illegal road races.",
"poster_path": "/8Bq9YD1UIw1hdkccegKVaUipBH9.jpg",
"backdrop_path": "/ogcQ0P7d1qY8S0CUWOeUrSa1BSB.jpg",
"parts": []
}
Yet surfing your site, definitely shows The Cannonball Run, Cannonball Run II and Speed Trap as belonging to this collection.
Sorry, I can't recall the other collections I had issue with, this is the only one that I investigated thoroughly.
One other questions, is there any thoughts of allowing download of all Collections in one hit? I only ask as this would allow quicker performance if the file was local and only needed updating occasionally....(yeah, trying to be lazy, but trying to reduce number of API calls)
Cheers
Reply by Travis Bell
on November 10, 2016 at 4:01 PM
Hi Rob,
This is definitely a bug. I've created a new ticket for this here and will look at it next week. I'm out of the office until November 16.
Reply by Rob
on November 23, 2016 at 3:58 PM
Hey Travis.
Just wanted to bring this issue to your attention again. Tested and still returning an empty set for Cannonball Run. Sorry, can't recall the other collection this affected also.
https://api.themoviedb.org/3/collection/101688?api_key= (removed)
Other collections are returning correctly https://api.themoviedb.org/3/collection/9485?api_key= (removed)
Reply by Travis Bell
on November 27, 2016 at 1:54 PM
Hi Rob,
This is on deck to be fixed this going week.
Reply by Rob
on January 31, 2017 at 2:13 PM
Hi Travis
Hate to bring up an old thread, but the collection for Cannon Ball Run is still not returning any movies that are against this collection
Reply by Travis Bell
on February 1, 2017 at 11:35 AM
Hi Rob,
This should be fixed now. You'll have to wait for the cached response to expire which is in 3.5 hours from me writing this post.
Reply by Rob
on February 1, 2017 at 4:57 PM
Sweet. Confirmed as working.
You can close this thread now.
If I find any other collections with this issue, I will open a new thread. Or is the fix for Cannon Ball Run something that would check and fix any other collections?
Reply by Travis Bell
on February 1, 2017 at 5:00 PM
Awesome!
It was a data issue so it could happen again, yes. I'm not sure how the data got in that state but it's not normal and I have never seen it before.