How to get movie genres added to discover/movie data

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posted by llator01
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on January 16, 2022 at 11:17 AM

Hi all, i am trying to fetch the genre data for each movie with discover/movie. The only value available are the genre id which is an integer. what i need is the genre type that match this specific movie object. I have seen that i can get the genre by adding with_genre but not sure how or where to this. How can i get this data? Can someone help me, please? thanks

{
    "adult": false,
    "backdrop_path": "/tutaKitJJIaqZPyMz7rxrhb4Yxm.jpg",
    "genre_ids": [
        16,
        35,
        10751,
        10402
    ],
    "id": 438695,
    "original_language": "en",
    "original_title": "Sing 2",
    "overview": "Buster and his new cast now have their sights set on debuting a new show at the Crystal Tower Theater in glamorous Redshore City. But with no connections, he and his singers must sneak into the Crystal Entertainment offices, run by the ruthless wolf mogul Jimmy Crystal, where the gang pitches the ridiculous idea of casting the lion rock legend Clay Calloway in their show. Buster must embark on a quest to find the now-isolated Clay and persuade him to return to the stage.",
    "popularity": 8913.036,
    "poster_path": "/aWeKITRFbbwY8txG5uCj4rMCfSP.jpg",
    "release_date": "2021-12-01",
    "title": "Sing 2",
    "video": false,
    "vote_average": 8.2,
    "vote_count": 740
}

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Reply by Travis Bell

STAFFMOD

on January 16, 2022 at 11:44 AM

An example discover query looking for say, action (id 28) and adventure (id 12) would look like this:

https://api.themoviedb.org/3/discover/movie?api_key=###&with_genres=28,12

This is an AND query. If you wanted to do an OR query, you would want to change the comma to a pipe:

https://api.themoviedb.org/3/discover/movie?api_key=###&with_genres=28|12

Discover supports well over 30 options and filters so make sure to read the docs to start and understand how powerful it is.

Reply by llator01

STAFFMOD

on January 16, 2022 at 11:49 AM

Hi Travis, thanks for supporting on a sunday. I am fetching it this way using an async function. Where should i add the with_genres in this set up,please?

const fetchMovies = async () => {

    const { data: {results}} = await axios.get(`${API_URL}/discover/movie/with_genres`, {
      params: {
        api_key: process.env.REACT_APP_MOVIE_API_KEY,
      },
    })

Reply by Travis Bell

STAFFMOD

on January 16, 2022 at 11:54 AM

@llator01 said:

Hi Travis, thanks for supporting on a sunday. I am fetching it this way using an async function. Where should i add the with_genres in this set up,please?

No problem. Just chilling with some

You're looking for something a little more like this:

 const fetchMovies = async () => {

     const { data: {results}} = await axios.get(`${API_URL}/discover/movie`, {
       params: {
         api_key: process.env.REACT_APP_MOVIE_API_KEY,
         with_genres: ${GENRE_QUERY}
       },
     })

$GENRE_QUERY in this case would be a string like 28,12, but I don't know anything about Axios so that might not be the proper convention. Structurally that's right in any case.

Reply by llator01

STAFFMOD

on January 16, 2022 at 12:13 PM

thanks for this, i will have to dig deeper but it helps.
One more thing, is there a way to get all genres not only 1 specific.
From the data set i have provide as you can see the movie has 4 genres id, which i assume correspond to the respectif genre this movie is belonging to.
If i want to display these 4 genres on the movie card, how would i do this?
Alternatively, in the first data set there are the genre ids, is there a way to get this ref return the matching name of the ref?
thanks again

Reply by tmdb85786457

STAFFMOD

on January 23, 2022 at 3:16 AM

const API_URL = Base_URL + "/discover/movie?sort_by=popularity.desc&" + API_KEY;

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Reply by ticao2 🇧🇷 pt-BR

STAFFMOD

on January 23, 2022 at 6:29 AM

@llator01 said:
Alternatively, in the first data set there are the genre ids, is there a way to get this ref return the matching name of the ref?
thanks again

No. You will always receive the Gender ID.
I think at the very least you need to have the Gender ID match list with the Gender.
Look here:
https://developers.themoviedb.org/3/genres/get-movie-list
https://developers.themoviedb.org/3/genres/get-tv-list
Knowing which ID corresponds to which Genre you should on your side, in your code, do the conversion.

If i want to display these 4 genres on the movie card, how would i do this?

I don't know what you mean by movie card
I believe that only AXIOS code programmers can help you with this question.

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