Hi @mmaihoff,

In order to get all of your list items, you'll have to use v4, like you pointed out. But, if all you're trying to do is check if a certain item is on your list, there actually is a method that you can use to do that. Check out the docs for v4's /item_status method. You pass it a media_type and media_id and the response will indicate if it's present or not. Would that work?

hey hey @travisbell, i know the fact that "item_status" responses the status of an movie item but that means if i use that on a global search that i need to request every single item twice. the first request gets me the movies by title and then i need to put the requested items id to send another request to get the item status this could be a bit overwhelming on a performance persepctive. Or is there another way to use the "…search/multi?…" enpoint to get both the item status and the results together?

if i request my list by using the "…4/list/list_id" endpoint i am not able to search in the whole list because the request is paged. And also to loop trough all pages and combine the results in an array is really inperformanced.

any ideas here? :)

Ok, so technically there is actually another "behind the scenes" param you can use, but it can only be used when you specify a custom sort order like popularity.desc. You can use with_text_query. Check it:

https://api.themoviedb.org/4/list/28?with_text_query=birdman&sort_by=popularity.desc

You'll see that only Birdman is returned in the results array. Does that help you?

Uhhhh great … i will check this out soon!!! Thanks a lot :)

@travisbell that works perfect for my needs! thank you