The Movie Database Support

Hi, I would like for the user on my app to be able to search for title of movie, and have all results based on what they are typing, change as they type. Any Suggestions? Somewhat new to programming. Thanks

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Try this

https://api.themoviedb.org/3/search/company?api_key=<<api_key>>&query=QUERY&page=1 and replace with your api_key and QUERY

Hi @Deekan142 All of our search methods support ngram searching. The website search for example is literally making /search/multi calls. For movies, some examples for /search/movie look like:

https://api.themoviedb.org/3/search/movie?api_key=###&query=bat
https://api.themoviedb.org/3/search/movie?api_key=###&query=batm
https://api.themoviedb.org/3/search/movie?api_key=###&query=batman
https://api.themoviedb.org/3/search/movie?api_key=###&query=batman+be

Cheers.

Thanks for the Help, how are people organizing the Info? with a plugin? I had to use a huge algorithm to come up with just grabbing certain pieces of the string I need.

Do you mean parsing the data? If so, it's JSON. So if you use a proper JSON library and parse it with said library it's as easy as accessing a native data struct (in whatever language you're using). Here's a simple example in Ruby:

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
require 'json'

api_key = 'YOUR_API_KEY'
url = URI("https://api.themoviedb.org/3/search/movie?include_adult=false&page=1&language=en-US&api_key=#{api_key}&query=batman+begins")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)
response = http.request(request)
body = JSON.parse(response.read_body)

Now that I a body variable with parsed JSON, I can call it like any regular Ruby hash object:

2.2.3 :041 > body.keys
 => ["page", "results", "total_results", "total_pages"]
2.2.3 :042 > body['results'].count
 => 1
2.2.3 :043 > body['results'][0]
 => {"poster_path"=>"/dr6x4GyyegBWtinPBzipY02J2lV.jpg", "adult"=>false, "overview"=>"Driven by tragedy, billionaire Bruce Wayne dedicates his life to uncovering and defeating the corruption that plagues his home, Gotham City.  Unable to work within the system, he instead creates a new identity, a symbol of fear for the criminal underworld - The Batman.", "release_date"=>"2005-06-14", "genre_ids"=>[28, 80, 18], "id"=>272, "original_title"=>"Batman Begins", "original_language"=>"en", "title"=>"Batman Begins", "backdrop_path"=>"/65JWXDCAfwHhJKnDwRnEgVB411X.jpg", "popularity"=>5.512533, "vote_count"=>4767, "video"=>false, "vote_average"=>7.3}
2.2.3 :044 > body['results'][0]['original_title']
 => "Batman Begins"
2.2.3 :045 > body['results'][0]['poster_path']
 => "/dr6x4GyyegBWtinPBzipY02J2lV.jpg"

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