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Search Feature Request
posted by Lee ThompsonSTAFFMOD on January 3, 2018 at 3:57 PM
Search by IMDB id i.e. I could just put in "tt0076759" and it would find Star Wars (1977).
Reply by bryguy2fly
on January 9, 2018 at 8:58 AM
I have the exact same request. This would make movies MUCH easier to identify on my Zappiti player
Reply by Ray
on January 10, 2018 at 7:44 AM
What does tt0076759 mean?
Reply by Marr 🇳🇱
on January 10, 2018 at 2:15 PM
Its in the external id section so it might not be too hard to fix that _^ i know it has been requested before though.
Reply by Travis Bell
on January 11, 2018 at 10:46 AM
Hi @leethompson,
I'm not sure about hooking up a specific IMDb search, it's possible that one day a general external ID search could exist as part of some kind of a advanced search. That way all of our supported external ids are supported. Our API has this.
In the meantime you can use the redirect path if you want. It looks like this:
https://www.themoviedb.org/redirect?external_source=imdb_id&external_id=tt2250912
Reply by Lee Thompson
on April 19, 2019 at 9:41 PM
That is an IMDB (Internet Movie Database) ID.