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List of Keywords
posted by IIOSSTAFFMOD on January 21, 2017 at 9:25 PM
Would it be possible to get the list of all used keywords? CSV, Text file.
Reply by Travis Bell
on January 22, 2017 at 11:19 AM
Hi @IIOS I'm not sure about this one, I'll have to give it some thought. I have plans to do a couple text file downloads but haven't decided if the keyword list will be one of them.
Reply by IIOS
on January 22, 2017 at 6:08 PM
No problem, I've created a list which broadly represents keywords used (~1400 rows), but it would be nice to get the actual list with Ids. I don't need MovieId<>KeywordId relationship, just the actual list of used keywords and their Id to improve discovering movies by keyword. Currently if 3 keywords are used, that requires 3 calls to the API for the Id, and that API call will wildcard match, bring back more Ids. When you combine this with the other calls it adds a bit of overhead.
What plans do you have for text file dls?
Thanks.
Reply by Travis Bell
on January 24, 2017 at 10:16 AM
Right now just a list of dead ids for movies, TV shows and people.
Reply by cpalmer
on August 23, 2017 at 12:38 PM
@IIOS Keywords seems to be an important use case for us. I was searching around the api , we wanted to provide an autocomplete field allowing user to search apis in our admin site. Were you able to locate a list of the key words for auto complete? I see you said I have about 1400 key words how did you extract? I don't see an api... Thanks chris
Reply by IIOS
on August 23, 2017 at 8:44 PM
I think I did it the arduous way using Keyword search back in then. I'm fairly sure I used a dictionary and then hit /search/keyword for an ~hour saving unique keywords. I ended up with 18432, but I think there's been some maintenance since bcos kw like "zombies island" result = 0; while "yugoslavian peasant" still returns 1. The text file is definitely the way to go, but if you strip out the non english values I think I wasn't far off with my method.
Reply by cpalmer
on August 23, 2017 at 9:20 PM
Thanks guys! For autocomplete looks like this is the go: https://api.themoviedb.org/3/search/keyword
Reply by martina.physics
on September 4, 2018 at 3:04 AM
Hi there! Have been looking for exactly the same thing. I've used the daily exports as per docs but keep getting a 'No such key' error. Any reason? For the record, have been trying exactly what the docs suggest: http://files.tmdb.org/p/exports/movie_ids_04_28_2017.json.gz. If this doesn't work, is my only option, to get the list of existing keywords, to crawl the full API for them?