Help with returning more than 20 results per page?

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posted by michaelrjr
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on November 23, 2020 at 4:46 PM

I'm creating a movie recommender app for a college project and using the discover API to find or discover movies based on different types of user input. When I make a request to the API there are 10,000 results, 500 pages but only 20 results per page. Is there a way I can have all 10000 results in one Json file?

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Reply by Travis Bell

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on November 23, 2020 at 6:37 PM

Hi @michaelrjr,

No, we do not support any API methods that can return the full dataset. Your only real option would be to bring the data in house. To do that, you can use the daily ID exports and iterate over the individual IDs.

Cheers.

Reply by sauvik-logic-square

STAFFMOD

on March 30, 2023 at 11:35 AM

okay and so how can we get the additional data after the first 20 results...

Reply by Travis Bell

STAFFMOD

on March 30, 2023 at 11:37 AM

Use the page param.

https://api.themoviedb.org/3/discover/movie?api_key=###&page=1
https://api.themoviedb.org/3/discover/movie?api_key=###&page=2
https://api.themoviedb.org/3/discover/movie?api_key=###&page=3

Etc.

Reply by sauvik-logic-square

STAFFMOD

on March 30, 2023 at 11:39 AM

ohh okk thanks! also can you point me to some resources applying the same. That would be amazing!

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