The Movie Database Support
Support → API Support
Movie and TV Discover/Search Excluding Ids
posted by mohamed_alaa_eldin_elsayed_ahmedSTAFFMOD on October 13, 2018 at 7:52 AM
Hello, I wonder if you can add a ticket to add one more query param in /discover to exclude specific results
What I wanna achieve is having without_id (comma separated movies ids)
so when I search these movies will be excluded from the results
(For more clarity of what I wanna achieve)
I wanna give the user in my mobile app ability to have hidden/block list
so when he searches via Discover or search API endpoint these movies(hidden/block list)
will be excluded from the results.
I tried to do that by myself but this will need several API calls which may easily reach the limit
so I think having this feature in the backend is better, And Thanks.
Reply by Travis Bell
on October 13, 2018 at 12:18 PM
Hi @mohamed_alaa_eldin_elsayed_ahmed,
I have an open ticket for this that you can follow here.
Cheers.
Reply by enyce12
on October 23, 2020 at 5:37 AM
Hi @travisbell
do you have any updates regarding this feature request? What I'm doing right now is super inefficient on my side and produces a lot of unnecessary API calls. It would be super nice if one could just pass in a list of ids that should be excluded (ideally using a POST request so you don't run into request length limits).
I would also be willing to pay for the development work of this feature if this would help increase the priority. I really need this feature for my mobile application :)
Cheers