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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Reply by ticao2 š§š· pt-BR
on February 17, 2018 at 11:13 AM
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".
Reply by Travis Bell
on February 21, 2018 at 12:48 PM
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.
Reply by Piplos
on February 21, 2018 at 1:11 PM
Thanks @travisbell!
Reply by Travis Bell
on March 16, 2018 at 12:42 PM
Runtime's fallback to English now, so you should see a lot more runtime data now
Reply by wonderfullife
on February 5, 2019 at 9:10 AM
Hi, is there an Overview fallback to English right now? I couldn't fallback to English with Overview.
Reply by Travis Bell
on February 7, 2019 at 11:42 AM
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.