The Movie Database Support

So I've set the region to Spain, but the release date returned in the discover call is the US release. Any thoughts on why that is:

Example call:

https://api.themoviedb.org/3/discover/movie?api_key={API_KEY}&language=en-US&region=ES&sort_by=popularity.desc&include_adult=false&include_video=false&page=1&release_date.gte=2019-10-10&release_date.lte=2020-10-10&with_release_type=4

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Any thoughts at all on this issue?

Hi @brianminor, I don't know why this is happening. I've created a new ticket to look into this here. Thanks.

awesome thanks!

The fix for this was just deployed, let me know if you're seeing any strangeness. Region is no longer taken into account unless it is present. There was a condition that slipped in by accident where the region part of the language tag was being used. That is no longer happening.

https://api.themoviedb.org/3/discover/movie?api_key=###&language=en-US&region=ES&sort_by=popularity.desc&include_adult=false&include_video=false&page=1&release_date.gte=2019-10-10&release_date.lte=2020-10-10&with_release_type=4

On the positive side of this work that I just completed, things got a bit more customizable. Multiple regions can be specified, along with multiple release types. So it's now possible to build your own date like so:

https://api.themoviedb.org/3/discover/movie?api_key=###&language=en-US&sort_by=popularity.desc&include_adult=false&include_video=false&page=1&release_date.gte=2019-10-10&release_date.lte=2020-10-10&region=ES|US&with_release_type=4|5

If you wanted to:

  • Prefer a release date in Spain over US
  • Prefer digital over physical releases (in that order)

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