Currently cross-referencing themoviedb with some guidebox info. I noticed that guidebox gives episodes themoviedb id's (e.g. it spits out '170135' as the id of the first episode of The Office); is there an endpoint for supporting this? It appears as if I have to instead go through the show, season number, and episode number, which is more prone to error.
I also tried using find on episodes of The Office using the imdb id's of several episodes, but never got a result returned. Is that a normal result? Just not sure how consistent I should expect finding based on external_ids to be.
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Reply by Travis Bell
on May 11, 2017 at 7:25 PM
Hi @foggy1
There is not, it is assumed on the API side to always just use the season/episode pair. Episodes get deleted and re-sorted and the like, so I try to not expose those ID's on the API. You'll notice that aside from displaying the id, they are only used on the change logs. Nowhere else.
This could change though, it wouldn't be hard to add the extra method. I'll think on it. I've created a new ticket for this here.
I just did a DB query and I'm going to say, for IMDb that's the case. We have decent coverage of TVDB ids, but IMDb looks sparse.