Discover Method: Movies
Learn and practice how we can use the TMDB API discover method for movies.
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
The discover method also supports the sorting of results. For example, we can get our results in ascending or descending order using the asc
keyword or desc
keyword. Moreover, we can also use gte
for greater than or equal to and lte
for less than or equal to. We’ll discuss a few in detail below.
Note: A number of filters we use with discover endpoint support being comma (
,
) or pipe (|
) separated. The commas are treated as anAND
query, while pipes are considered as anOR
.
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