Primary Movie Details
Explore how to fetch primary movie information using The Movie Database API's movie endpoint in Python. Learn to retrieve and customize movie details such as plot overview, runtime, reviews, and media in specific languages, as well as how to optimize API calls with optional parameters.
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We need our TMDB API key to go through various endpoints to understand how they work. In this lesson, we’ll first explore and practice TMDB’s basic yet important endpoint; the movie endpoint. It is responsible to fetch all the fundamental information about a movie for which we’d specify movie_id.
Movie details
People choose to watch a movie by looking at basic details, such as plot overview, movie length, reviews, votes, and popularity. We can use the movie endpoint, with the path parameter movie_id, to get the primary information about a movie.
The base URL in focus is as follows:
https://api.themoviedb.org/3/movie/{movie_id}?api_key={ourTMDBapikey}