Discover Method: TV
Learn and practice how we can use the TMDB API discover method for TV shows.
This lesson focuses on TMDB’s discover method for TV shows.
Discover TV shows
We can discover TV shows by different types of data like average rating, number of votes, genres, the network they aired on, and air dates. This method works in a similar way as the discover method for movies does. Therefore, it also supports the sort options like asc
for ascending, desc
for descending, gte
for greater or equal to, and lte
for less than or equal to.
Request parameters
Some of the input query parameters for this endpoint are given below, for all the input query parameters, please check this lesson.
Name | Type | Category | Description |
| string | optional | This is an |
| string | optional | This is used to specify the type of sort we want in our search results. The valid values include |
| integer | optional | This filters and only includes TV shows with an original air date year equal to the specified value. We can use it in conjunction with the |
| string | optional | This is a comma-separated value of genre IDs that we want to include in the results. |
| string | optional | This is a comma or pipe separated list of watch provider IDs. We can combine this filter with |
| boolean | optional | This is used to filter results to include items that have been screened theatrically. |
| string | optional | This is used to filter TV shows by their status. The valid value for Returning Series is |
| string | optional | This is used to filter TV shows by their type. The valid value for Documentary is |