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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.

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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}
```

### Request parameters
The input query parameters supported by this endpoint are as follows:

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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`.

Introduction

Movies

TV Shows

People

Finding Movies or TV Data

APIs Integration in React

Conclusion

Appendix

Hit TV Shows

Popular TV shows

Request parameters