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Integrate The Movie Database API in JavaScript

Discover Method: Movies

Explore how to use the TMDB API discover method to filter and sort movies by genre, rating, release year, and certifications. Understand how to apply query parameters for customized movie searches and retrieve popular, top-rated, or specific filtered movie lists to enhance your JavaScript applications.

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Sometimes it’s useful to search for movies and TV shows based on filters or definable values like ratings, certifications, or release dates. TMDB’s discover method makes this easy. It has two versions, one for movies and the other for TV shows. This lesson will focus on how TMDB’s discover method works for the movies.

Discover movies

We can discover movies with respect to different types of data like genres, ratings, number of votes, and certificationsCertifications decide whether a movie can be publicly presented or not. If not, then make some deletions and modifications to allow it for public viewing. For example, a “Rated G: General audiences” certification represents a movie for all ages.. TMDB also has a method to get a valid list of certifications.

The discover method also supports the sorting of results. For ...