How to obtain your account_id

There needs to be a good tutorial on how to retrieve the account_id because there's several steps on how to get there.

• You need to start here: https://developers.themoviedb.org/3/authentication/how-do-i-generate-a-session-id and follow these instructions.
• Use Postman instead of the on-page generator, otherwise you may run into CORS issues.
• Be sure to pay attention to what is a GET versus a POST request.
• You'll need your API key for everything so be sure to create an app if you haven't already. https://www.themoviedb.org/settings/api

I'll try to recall the steps –

1. Get your Request Token (docs)

https://api.themoviedb.org/3/authentication/token/new?api_key=blahblahblah

Plug that URL into Postman as a GET request and run it.

You should now have your Request Token.

2. Create your session_id

https://api.themoviedb.org/3/authentication/session/new?api_key=blahblahblah

Add that to Postman as a POST Request. Also within Postman's Body tab, you need to add your request_token as raw JSON.

It will look something like the following:

{
  "request_token": "xxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
}

Run the request and should get back your session_id.

3. Retrieve your account details (docs)

Back in Postman add your URL as GET request.

https://api.themoviedb.org/3/account?api_key=blahblahblah&session_id=xxxxxxxxxxx

This should return some JSON, and within it the id which is your account_id:

{
    "avatar": {
        "gravatar": {
            "hash": "00000000000000000"
        },
        "tmdb": {
            "avatar_path": null
        }
    },
    "id": 1234567,
    "iso_639_1": "en",
    "iso_3166_1": "US",
    "name": "",
    "include_adult": true,
    "username": "meme"
}

Enjoy!

Good run through, thanks @djmtype.

Did everything right upto 2, but postman is showing session denied status message, what should I do in that case?

You can check out some test scripts I have below, which have all the functionality to get this done. All of the code is client side JS so inspect the code to see what's happening.

• http://dev.travisbell.com/play/v3_auth.html
• http://dev.travisbell.com/play/v3_account_lists.html

Cheers.

@travisbell said:

You can check out some test scripts I have below, which have all the functionality to get this done. All of the code is client side JS so inspect the code to see what's happening.

• http://dev.travisbell.com/play/v3_auth.html
• http://dev.travisbell.com/play/v3_account_lists.html

Cheers.

Thank you Travis Bell