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French title is nowhere to be found using the API, but is correctly displayed when browsing to the movie's page
posted by pxmmeSTAFFMOD on January 12, 2023 at 9:01 AM
Hey folks,
I hope y'all are doing well today. I'm trying to find french titles for movies using their TMDB IDs using the API. I'd say that it works well for about 50% of them, using a call to https://api.themoviedb.org/3/movie/TMDBID?api_key=REDACTED&language=fr-FR, but for the rest, it doesn't. I tried to combine the use of the alternative_titles endpoint as well but, still, some french titles are nowhere to be found using the API.
Here's a perfect example: let's take the movie 14 Peaks - Nothing is Impossible (TMDB ID : 890825).
{[...],"original_language":"en","original_title":"14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible",[...]"title":"14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible","video":false,"vote_average":7.423,"vote_count":222}
{"id":890825,"titles":[{"iso_3166_1":"ES","title":"Los 14 ochomiles: No hay nada imposible","type":""},{"iso_3166_1":"GB","title":"14 Peaks","type":""}]}
{"id":890825,"titles":[]}
None of those API calls fetch the actual french title for this movie, which is 14 x 8000 : Aux sommets de l'impossible. Well, maybe TMDB simply doesn't have it in store, right?
Let's browse to the movie page from a French IP address to make sure: https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/890825-14-peaks-nothing-is-impossible
https://gcdnb.pbrd.co/images/dLurINCd9Ck9.png
They have it. It's correctly displayed on the website, but nowhere to be found using the API.
I'm baffled. Am I missing something obvious here?
Thanks in advance to everyone who will take the time to try and help me out!
Kind regards.
Reply by pxmme
on January 12, 2023 at 9:30 AM
Alright folks, did some digging. Here's what I found out:
Accept-Language: fr-FR,fr;q=0.9,en-US;q=0.8,en;q=0.7header correctly yields the french title for a movie, every time.Guess I'm simply going to scrape the web pages for now, since it appears that their backend has access to an up-to-date, working database that has all the correct french titles in it, as opposed to the public API :(
Reply by ticao2 🇧🇷 pt-BR
on January 12, 2023 at 11:51 PM
When I make the API Request for my language (pt-BR) I receive it in my language, correctly.
https://api.themoviedb.org/3/movie/890825?api_key=THE_KEY&language=pt-BR
But when I do it using the fr-FR language, I get it in the default language, in English or en-US.
https://api.themoviedb.org/3/movie/890825?api_key=THE_KEY&language=fr-FR
Yes, I think something is wrong.
The answer is given as if it doesn't exist in fr-FR.
But in fact it exists.
Only Travis Bell the admin can resolve this.
Let's wait for him to come by.
Reply by Fredo
on June 26, 2023 at 2:27 AM
Is there some news regarding this point? I am also interested in getting the translated french file name and doing it with either fr-CH or fr-FR doesn't help. Most of them are translated, few others are not.
It looks more like a data issue than a general header handling issue.
Thank's for any update
Reply by Travis Bell
on June 26, 2023 at 10:16 AM
@frederic.blanc@bluewin.ch What's an example request that isn't yielding the data you expect?
Reply by ticao2 🇧🇷 pt-BR
on June 26, 2023 at 10:19 AM
Today I redid the 3 API Requests, using my Firefox browser, correcting the error or lack of language-COUNTRY specification.
The answer was correct.
With title and overview in fr-FR
The answer was correct.
I received the list with all the alternative titles that this film has.
Spain, ES, and Great Britain, GB.
The answer was correct.
No alternate title for France, FR, because in this movie there is no alternate title for France, FR.
If you change the parameter to "&country=ES" you will see the alternative title for Spain. ES.
So, I still don't understand what the problem is.
In my browser I get the correct answers.
It remains to be seen how you are sending the Requests in your code programming.
Reply by Fredo
on July 10, 2023 at 5:27 PM
Mmh, I don't know were I was looking, but I confirm that now it works perfectly :) Thank's for your time and investigation