You can get either the aired order (main episodes list) or one of the episode groups available for the series.

When I try to use this (either from my app for from the https://developers.themoviedb.org/3/tv-episode-groups/get-tv-episode-group-details url, I don't get any data. The call I am making is https://api.themoviedb.org/3/tv/episode_group/46592?api_key=&language=en-US.

Any idea what I am doing wrong?

The series with Id 46592 doesn't have any episode groups defined : https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/46592-7/episode_groups

Do you have an example of one that does?

@Dan Hinsley said:

Do you have an example of one that does?

For example, Ascendance of a Bookworm (2019)

What I'm looking for is something that had the DVD group defined. I want to be able to display the episodes in either Aired or DVD order.

@Dan Hinsley said:

What I'm looking for is something that had the DVD group defined.

A group for a DVD order is a group like any other group. The only particularity is that it will have DVD in the type field.

I understand, but I need to make sure that I'm parsing everything correctly, so I need at least one example of something with this group defined for testing purposes.

And I would also like to understand why I can't use the try it out function of the API documentation website. I've used it before, but now all I get are 503 service unavailable.

@Dan Hinsley said:

I understand, but I need to make sure that I'm parsing everything correctly, so I need at least one example of something with this group defined for testing purposes.

The fields are exactly the same for all episode groups.

And I would also like to understand why I can't use the try it out function of the API documentation website. I've used it before, but now all I get are 503 service unavailable.

As it is already indicated in many posts about the API, the "Try it out" function is currently not working. It is blocked by its provider.

When I get the groups for Ascendance of a Bookworm (2019), there is one group, type 6 (which is Production), but the fields wouldn't seem to work for type 3 (DVD), since what I would like to get from this group is the DVD order episode (with either the name or episode id so I can match it), which would seem to be an array of objects.

Am I confused about what the DVD episode group would contain?

It will contain exactly the same things as the one you get here. The only difference will be the type value.

I don't mean to be dense, but I'm still not getting it. When I get the type 6 episode_group, it contains:

{"results":[{"description":"","episode_count":24,"group_count":2,"id":"5ecf3c8596386400246c6c97","name":"Cours","network":null,"type":6}],"id":91768}

If I received a type 3, would it have the episode name/episode number in DVD order in some fashion?

You first use the function get_tv_episode_groups (like you seem to have done here) to get the list of episode groups for the series.

And, after that, you use the function get_tv_episode_group_details with the id of the group you want to get the details of it.

Note : There may be multiple DVD order episode groups (for example, one for French DVDs and one for United States DVD, a group per release if there were multiple release of DVDs for the same show with different orders).

Now I see, I didn't get that I had to do the second call. one last question, if the episode_group is a type 3, then when I get the details the episode number in the episodes array will the the DVD order. Is this correct?

And thanks for all you help.

@Dan Hinsley said:

one last question, if the episode_group is a type 3, then when I get the details the episode number in the episodes array will the the DVD order. Is this correct?

The order of the episodes in a group is determined by the "order" field.

The "season_number" and "episode_number" fields are links to the main episodes list to be able to get other informations about the episodes, for example the backdrops or the guest stars.

Bedtime for me now.