Find and Search Methods
Explore how to locate movies, TV shows, and persons on TMDB by using the find endpoint with external IDs and the search endpoint with text queries. Understand the parameters and usage of both methods to fetch accurate data for your applications.
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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 l ...