The Movie Database Support

Thanks for this API!

Running into a strange bug... The following code works great for a list of movies, but for a list of TV shows, it returns the correct total_results and object_ids, but the results array is empty.

Any idea why?

const fetch = require(`node-fetch`);
const Bottleneck = require(`bottleneck`);

const limiter = new Bottleneck({
  reservoir: 40, // max requests
  reservoirRefreshAmount: 40,
  reservoirRefreshInterval: 10 * 1000, // time span
  maxConcurrent: 1,
  minTime: 10000 / 40 // avg MS per request
});

async function fetchTMDBListData(listId) {
  let items = [];
  let page = 1;
  let totalPages;

  async function fetch20Items() {
    return await fetch(
      `https://api.themoviedb.org/4/list/${listId}?sort_by=release_date.desc&page=${page}`,
      {
        headers: {
          Accept: "application/json",
          Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.TMDB_READ_ACCESS_TOKEN}`
        }
      }
    );
  }

  do {
    try {
      const response = await limiter.schedule(() => fetch20Items());
      const data = await response.json();
      totalPages = data.total_pages;
      items.push(...data.results);
    } catch (error) {
      console.log("fetchTMDBListData error", error);
    }

    page++;
  } while (page <= totalPages);

  return Promise.all(items);
}

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Nevermind! It was just the sort_by value.

When querying the tv api, release_date needs to become primary_release_date .

Hi @ooloth,

Yes, I believe the common date sort field I setup for lists is primary_release_date. Otherwise on TV, I always use first_air_date. This is the same as how discover works.

Anyways, happy to hear you sorted it.

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