Generating Your API Key
Explore the process of generating a TMDb API key and learn how to integrate it into an Ionic Angular project. Understand creating essential services and components to handle movie data, manage storage, and configure environment settings for cross-platform app development.
Before we delve into creating our Ionic Tabs project and the initial configurations that will be required, let’s begin with creating a free account on The Movie Database (hereafter referred to by its acronym TMDb).
We’ll need to do this to request an API key that is required for using their free API service to retrieve movie, TV show, and performer data and images for use in third-party applications.
Remember: This case study uses a mocked version of the original API. The purpose of this lesson is purely to demonstrate how we would go about retrieving and configuring a TMDb API key. You do not need to follow the steps below for the final application to work.
Creating a TMDb account
Using your system browser, navigate to the TMDb sign-up page.
Simply follow the TMDb instructions on-screen and in subsequent email notifications, and we should be ready to go in a short time.
Accessing your API key
Once everything has been set up, we can retrieve the generated API key from the API section of the account settings screen.
The API key is a 32 character automatically generated MD5 string which ...