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Most efficient way to get directors and top cast?
posted by marlonciriaticoSTAFFMOD on May 9, 2020 at 11:33 PM
The way I'm currently getting the directors and "top cast" for a given movie is through the https://developers.themoviedb.org/3/movies/get-movie-credits endpoint. I'm getting the first 10 itens of the array cast and all the crew such that crew[job] == 'Director'. This is very inefficient when you do it for a lot of movies because the credits response can be very long (100 KB+).
Reply by Travis Bell
on May 11, 2020 at 12:07 PM
Hi there,
At this time, there's no other method to get cast & crew. What you're doing is the only way. The only extra thing I will add is to use
append_to_responseif you're making a get details call as well. Not sure if you are, but that will at least allow the 2 calls to happen in a single HTTP call.