Discover movie request only shows top 10,000?

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posted by chillnmofo
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on July 8, 2020 at 1:01 PM

Hello - I was looking to pull back data on movies since 1990 in English using the API, however it looks I'm limited to 10,000 results (20 results a page, 500 pages total)?
When I search using the tmdb interface, it looks like there are 326K titles that fit this criteria. Am I overlooking something?

Using this call:
https://api.themoviedb.org/3/discover/movie?api_key=[]&language=en-US&sort_by=revenue.desc&include_adult=false&include_video=false&primary_release_date.gte=1990&with_original_language=en

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Reply by Travis Bell

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on July 8, 2020 at 1:33 PM

Hi @chillnmofo, the API limits search and discover calls to 10,000 items.

Reply by flaquitqm1029

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on January 6, 2022 at 2:04 AM

Hello @travisbell, What if I want results from pages 500 to 1000

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Reply by ticao2 🇧🇷 pt-BR

STAFFMOD

on January 6, 2022 at 7:39 AM

I suggest you add the &primary_release_date.lte= filter.
That way you will be able to receive the results for shorter periods, say 5 years maybe.
And then you should receive everyone with some requests.
If you reach the limit of 10000 items, reduce the period to 4 or 3 years.

https://api.themoviedb.org/3/discover/movie?api_key=THE_KEY&language=en-US&sort_by=revenue.desc&primary_release_date.gte=1990-01-01&primary_release_date.lte=1995-12-31&with_original_language=en

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