Hey there! Longtime user, first time poster. Big fan.
I was doing some organizing tonight and noticed the release date for Black Panther returned from the API (under release_date
, see here) is 2018-02-13
. On the site page, it's correctly listed as 2018-02-16
. I checked for a number of upcoming movies (mostly Marvel) and the same 2-5 day drift is there on the other API results.
Is there a reason the API is different from the site and is there a way to fix it?
لم تجد الفلم أو المسلسل ؟ سجل دخولك و انشئها
هل تريد تقييم او اضافة هذا العنصر للقائمة؟
لست عضو؟
رد بواسطة Travis Bell
بتاريخ فبراير 12, 2018 في 11:13 صباحا
Hi @xavdid,
Thanks for kind words
That would because on the API, without a region, the first theatrical release is being used. On the website, you're probably seeing the U.S. release date.
So for the upcoming call, you could do this:
Please note, that due to a bug with the way release dates are calculated you might not see Black Panther on the list. Refresh it and the dates will change and you'll see it. I really need to fix this!
When you see Black Panther, you'll see that the release date is Feb. 16. You can read more about regions here.
رد بواسطة xavdid
بتاريخ فبراير 12, 2018 في 7:53 مساءا
Ah, got it. The page I'm using (almost exclusively) is the
/movie/{id}
page described here. That page doesn't seem to take a region param, but withappend_to_request
and some extra parsing, I should be able to get what I need.Does the
release_date
pull from a specific region? It seems like it pulls from GB (that's the only date that matches up). Or is it just pulling the earliesttype == 3
release?Either way, thanks again for a great product!
رد بواسطة Travis Bell
بتاريخ فبراير 21, 2018 في 1:27 مساءا
On the website it's pulling 2 & 3 I believe. Order matters on discover, so you can build a query like this:
So this is looking for movies within the specified release range in GB and the US, and that have either a limited theatrical or wide theatrical release. If you want GB only, change region to just 'US'.