Find and Search Methods
Explore how to find movies, TV shows, and people using TMDB API's find and search endpoints. Understand using external IDs for precise lookups and query strings for text searches to access comprehensive data from TMDB. Learn to construct requests and interpret responses for effective integration in your projects.
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We’ll discuss two ways to search for and find movies, TV shows, and persons on TMDB in this lesson.
The find endpoint
We can use TMDB’s find endpoint with an integer type path parameter external_id to search for objects in the database by just an external ID. This method will search all objects (movies, TV shows, and persons) and return the results in a single JSON response.
Note: The find endpoint uses an external ID as a path parameter. You can find details about external IDs and the way to fetch them using this lesson. ...