The Movie Database Support

Hi, I've searched across this forum to see if this has been discussed before, but it seems not.

Let me introduce this:

https://api.themoviedb.org/3/movie/254128?language=en&api_key=###

This is the movie "San Andreas" requested in English language. It has a runtime of 114 mins.

But if I get the same movie in some language (such as Romanian or Norwegian) I get a runtime of 0 mins:

https://api.themoviedb.org/3/movie/254128?language=ro&api_key=###
https://api.themoviedb.org/3/movie/254128?language=no&api_key=###

Things get even worse on few other languages, like Nepali, which returns a null value:

https://api.themoviedb.org/3/movie/254128?language=ne&api_key=###

This behavior resulted in my app to have bad overall statistics (total amount of 50 movies runtimes: 317 min, obviously is not true)

Is this normal or is this a bug? If it's normal, maybe you should consider to make the movies having 0 or null inherit the original amount of runtime for that movie, because obviously a movie can never have 0 minutes of runtime and it's more than likely it would be the same as in the original

Best regards

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The movie would need to have an "Original Runtime", just as it has an "Original Title".
And, who knows, an "Original Overview", and a "Original Poster".
So if in your language there is no such information, you get the original.
The film would have an ISO "Original Language-Country".

Hi @Piplos,

There is no runtime fallback right now although I do have an open ticket for it here so it's on my radar. I do not have an ETA on completing the ticket at this time.

Thanks @travisbell!

Runtime's fallback to English now, so you should see a lot more runtime data now wink

@travisbell said:

Runtime's fallback to English now, so you should see a lot more runtime data now wink

Hi, is there an Overview fallback to English right now? I couldn't fallback to English with Overview.

Hi @wonderfullife,

We do not support overview fallbacks on the API at this time. I have a ticket that you can vote on for this here.

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