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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Contestado por ticao2 🇧🇷 pt-BR
el 17 de febrero de 2018 a las 11:13
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".
Contestado por Travis Bell
el 21 de febrero de 2018 a las 12:48
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.
Contestado por Piplos
el 21 de febrero de 2018 a las 13:11
Thanks @travisbell!
Contestado por Travis Bell
el 16 de marzo de 2018 a las 12:42
Runtime's fallback to English now, so you should see a lot more runtime data now
Contestado por wonderfullife
el 5 de febrero de 2019 a las 09:10
Hi, is there an Overview fallback to English right now? I couldn't fallback to English with Overview.
Contestado por Travis Bell
el 7 de febrero de 2019 a las 11:42
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.