Hi! I'm trying to pull all links to trailers in your API and noticed some responses that I cant explain: 1) TMDBID=2 has video listed as false from the the details endpoint, and NULL returns when I hit the videos endpoint. However, on your site, that movie has a trailer. Am I looking at it wrong, or is some data withheld from the API, or is it a bug? 2) TMDBID-3 has video listed as false from the details endpoint, but has a video when I hit the videos endpoint. same questions as above.
Please let me know at your convenience, and thank you so much!
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Reply by ticao2 š§š· pt-BR
on March 13, 2025 at 9:26 PM
I managed to find this.
ID 2, Ariel (1988) has:
ID 3, Shadows in Paradise (1986) has:
What parameter is your API Request using in &language= ?
Reply by monkeypants
on March 13, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Hi Ticao! I'm pulling it right from the API Reference page. I noticed that "en_US" is set by default so tried without that and still got nothing. Are you seeing something different? How are you getting a trailer URL for ID=5 from the API reference page? And I had a brain fart with the ID for the second example,, it was TMDBID-5. I guess that second question upon further reflection was what does the "video" value signify in the details endpoint. I originally thought it indicated if it had a video, but i guess it means something different?
Reply by Travis Bell
on March 14, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Correct, it does not mean that there are videos. The definition of what a video is can be found here.
Reply by monkeypants
on March 14, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Thanks Travis, that makes alot of sense... and ticao2s comment is on point as well. I wasnt using a language parameter so it defaulted to US. however there was a german langauge video that shows up when I specify "de-DE" so the results make sense to me... I do have one other question though regarding the videos endpoint:
For example: movie id 17 only returns this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdCLtwSSIh (which is no longer available) when i check the tmdb site though, I can confirm that the link to watch the trailer is also broken however, there is one video in the media section with this link: https://youtu.be/2PQmZGf36DE. but this link is not exposed in the API.
Am I looking in the wrong place to expect to see: 2PQmZGf36DE Also, is there an easy way I can feed back my findings back to the API (videos no longer available, etc...) so I'm helping to keep things tidy?
Reply by superboy97
on March 14, 2025 at 6:55 PM
It is on the Czech language : cs-CZ
You need to file a content report (Overview -> Report) on the corresponding movie page.