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Get a random movie or TV show from a category
Inlagt av VersifictionSTAFFMOD den 5 november 2019 vid 3:57 PM
I was wondering if it's possible to get a random movie from a category ?
I'm doing a mobile app where you can like or dislike a movie that appears randomly after the user chooses a category,
For example :
- User chooses "Action"
- User presses "Start"
- A poster of a random action movie appears,
For action, for example (with category number 28) : I was thinking to use:
https://api.themoviedb.org/3/discover/movie?api_key=<key>&language=fr-FR&include_adult=false&with_genres=28&page=<randomNumber>
and generate a random number to put after "page=" and then picking a film among the ones returned ?...
Thanks,
Svar från talestalker
den 6 november 2019 vid 2:15 PM
You can't get a random movie directly from TMDB API, so your approach is correct
. I would only add "&sort_by=popularity.desc" to sort the results by popularity to get more relevant results and then choose randomly from let's say first 1000 records.
Svar från elqunchenamour
den 1 april 2023 vid 2:18 AM
how do you get the first 1000 records in the url ?
Svar från talestalker
den 1 april 2023 vid 4:02 AM
The results are paginated by 20 and you can access any page using "&page=" parameter, so you should generate a random number from 1-1000 then get the corresponding page (page = random_number DIV 20) and finally get the corresponding result from the downloaded page (item = random_number MOD 20).
Svar från elqunchenamour
den 1 april 2023 vid 10:05 AM
Thank you for the answer bro
Svar från elqunchenamour
den 1 april 2023 vid 10:08 AM
thank you talestaker, this means a lot to me