The Movie Database Support

Hello. I'm trying to create my own app and use your api for it. And I want to get all movies info from your db. I saw that I can use the movies daily file export for it. http://files.tmdb.org/p/exports/movie_ids_05_19_2020.json.gz and then get more information by id. I read that you disabled the API rate limiting. But I worry about limit requests because for first time I should do more than 500 000+ requests? How many requests can I do for a day or minutes? What do you think about my decision to get all movies? Thank you very much for your understanding

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@SilEG said:

Hello. I'm trying to create my own app and use your api for it. And I want to get all movies info from your db. I saw that I can use the movies daily file export for it. http://files.tmdb.org/p/exports/movie_ids_05_19_2020.json.gz and then get more information by id. I read that you disabled the API rate limiting. But I worry about limit requests because for first time I should do more than 500 000+ requests? How many requests can I do for a day or minutes? What do you think about my decision to get all movies? Thank you very much for your understanding

Hello. I'm sorry to trouble you. Could you answer the question, thank you!

But I worry about limit requests because for first time I should do more than 500 000+ requests? How many requests can I do for a day or minutes?

I don't think there is such limit, just don't make hundreds of parallel request from multiple clients. I, for example, regularly make requests in 32 separate download threads when I need to get some portion of db for my personal use. You can download all movies in less than 2 hours that way.

What do you think about my decision to get all movies?

It depends on your application. Maybe using discover methods to access TMDb data as needed instead of caching it all locally is more suitable for you. In any case, just don't forget to attribute TMDb properly. You can read more about our attribution requirements here and here.

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