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Difference between API Get Recommended movies and Get Similar movies ?
Inlagt av RKingSTAFFMOD den 12 augusti 2018 vid 11:38 PM
What is the Difference between API Get Recommended movies and Get Similar movies?
How does this work? Based on what, the recommended movies are given to the user?
Svar från Travis Bell
den 13 augusti 2018 vid 5:37 PM
Similar is built by looking for items based on their keywords and genres. Recommendations are built by looking at user ratings. Very different approaches.
Similar does not tend to yield very good results, I almost exclusively recommend using recommendations instead.
Svar från RKing
den 14 augusti 2018 vid 10:59 AM
Thank you, Travis, for the explanation. Sounds goods! I will continue with recommendations.
Great work with TMDB!!
Svar från eracnos
den 26 april 2020 vid 4:11 AM
Hello !
Sorry to re-open an old discussion, but @travisbell can you be more specific about recommendations ? How is calculated ? Based on which user ratings exactly ?
Thanks in advance and for the formidable work on TMDb !