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Get network id by name
posted by sharepointalexSTAFFMOD on March 22, 2017 at 6:01 PM
Is there anyway to retrieve a network id by it's name?
For my app I am building I want the user to be able to search for upcoming shows on a particular network.
Cheers
Reply by sharepointalex
on March 29, 2017 at 5:42 PM
BUMP any ideas? I really need a way to find out what series are airing on a particular network
Reply by Travis Bell
on March 29, 2017 at 7:21 PM
Hi Alex,
Unfortunately there is not by name right now. You can of course use
with_networkson tv discover, but it expects an ID.How would you want to look these up, just a network search?
Reply by sharepointalex
on March 30, 2017 at 4:50 AM
Thanks Travis for getting back to me.
I just need a network search that returns the id if I search by the network name.
To be honest i'd be happy with a JSON file one off export that lists all the Networks on TMDB with their ids. I could use that in my code as it won't update that often.
Are you able to create me an export?
Reply by Travis Bell
on March 30, 2017 at 10:15 AM
Ya, I have some plans for a few other small JSON files. I have an open ticket for this here. I'm hoping to get to this in the next week or so.
Reply by sharepointalex
on March 31, 2017 at 8:29 AM
WIcked - if you are able to do the networks first that would be amazing- not that i'm biased or something but it would give my app some edge over the competition! ;-)
Reply by Travis Bell
on April 27, 2017 at 7:04 PM
Hi Alex,
You can download a list of the TV networks on TMDb from here:
http://files.tmdb.org/p/exports/tv_network_ids_04_27_2017.json.gz
A new file is generated every day and will follow that date format. More information about what files are available will be posted tomorrow.
Reply by sharepointalex
on May 2, 2017 at 6:54 PM
Hi Travis,
Great stuff - thanks!
I've had a look and extracted the zip, only issue is i'm having trouble getting this working with my NodeJS app. It doesn't appear to be valid JSON.
Can I get the export in a valid JSON format? I think the multiple root nodes means I can't parse this. Could we have each network as it's own JSON object?
Cheers
Reply by Travis Bell
on May 2, 2017 at 8:32 PM
As mentioned in the docs, the file itself is not a JSON object. The way it's designed is that each line contains a JSON object which makes it easy to simply iterate over each line of the file and parse it that way.
Reply by sharepointalex
on May 8, 2017 at 9:27 AM
Sorry Travis - didn't spot that! All good now - managed to grab the network id :-)
Cheers
Reply by John Bello-Oro
on July 1, 2021 at 7:39 PM
I would like to make use of the network list file too but I'm having problems downloading the file as it keeps telling me 403 Forbidden
Reply by John Bello-Oro
on July 1, 2021 at 7:47 PM
Don't worry already fixed