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Gain insights into using The Movie Database API in Python to retrieve movie and TV data, including titles, cast, reviews, and create a Django app with integrated TMDB functionalities.

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The Movie Database (TMDB) is a popular crowdsourced database for movies and TV shows. TMDB’s API enables us to incorporate functions—usually reserved for leading movie-related websites—into your own application.

This course is a hands-on guide on how to use the TMDB API to programmatically retrieve movie and television show data. You’ll look up essential production data such as title, release date, cast and crew, as well as associated media files like trailer videos and stills. You’ll also pull movie and TV show reviews, and associated productions to make recommendations. With time-bound queries, you’ll be able to display the latest data on movies and TV shows, including upcoming releases. Moreover, you’ll look up actors, directors, producers, and other crew members to find their production catalogs. After reviewing the various potential search functions of the Movie Database API, you’ll wrap up the course by building a Django application that integrates TMDB API.

Integrate The Movie Database API in Python

This lesson focuses on a few methods that will allow us to get some hit shows on TMDB.

# Popular TV shows

The popularity of any TV show is calculated based on factors like user votes, the number of user visits to the show’s homepage, how many times the video of any episode was played, and so on. The **popular TV shows** endpoint helps us get a list of the currently popular TV shows on TMDB. This list updates daily on the platform. The endpoint doesn't take any path parameters. 

The base URL in focus is as follows:

```
https://api.themoviedb.org/3/tv/popular?api_key={ourTMDBapikey}
```

The input query parameters required by this endpoint are as follows:

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The objects in the output JSON response are as follows:

Let's run an example of this endpoint. The widget below has code to get a list of popular shows on TMDB. Click "Run" to execute the program.

Learn and practice how to get popular, top-rated, and trending TV shows using TMDB API.

Name	Type	Category	Description
`language`	string	optional	This is an `ISO_3166_1` code used to get the translated data as per the specified language. This is applicable to only the fields that support it. The default value is `en-US`.
`page`	integer	optional	This is used to specify which page to query. Its value can be in the range of 1–1000 inclusive. The default value is `1`.

Object	Type	Category	Description
`page`	integer	optional	This is the page being queried.
`results`	array[object]	optional	This returns all the popular TV shows (with their details) on the specified page, such as 21 shows on page 1, then 20 shows on page 2, and so on.
`total_pages`	integer	optional	This is the total number of pages having popular TV shows on TMDB.
`total_results`	integer	optional	This is the total number of popular TV shows on TMDB.

Introduction

Movies

TV Shows

People

Finding Movies or TV Data

APIs Integration in Django

Conclusion

Appendix

Hit TV Shows

Popular TV shows