API_KEY

MOVIE_ID

CREDIT_ID

TV_ID

EXTERNAL_ID

PERSON_ID

EXTERNAL_SOURCE

Gain insights into using the TMDB API for retrieving movie/TV data, exploring production details, and discovering its integration into a React app for dynamic content display.

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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, that are usually reserved for leading movie-related websites, into our application.  

This course is a hands-on guide on using the TMDB API to retrieve data related to movies and television shows. You’ll look up essential production data, such as title, release date, cast, and crew, and associated media files (trailer videos and stills). You’ll also pull 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 conclude the course by learning to integrate TMDB API into a React application.

Integrate The Movie Database API in JavaScript

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 [lesson](https://www.educative.io/courses/movie-database-api-python/some-useful-ids#External-IDs). 


Learn and practice the find and search methods of TMDB API.

Introduction

Movies

TV Shows

People

Finding Movies or TV Data

APIs Integration in React

Conclusion

Appendix

Find and Search Methods

The find endpoint