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Primary TV Show Details

Primary TV Show Details

Learn and practice how to get primary TV shows details using TMDB API.

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This lesson focuses on TMDB’s endpoint to retrieve the key details of the TV show, season, and episode by their ID.

TV show details

The primary TV show details help an individual to choose whether to watch a TV show or not. TMDB allows us to fetch all the primary details of a TV show by its TMDB’s ID. The method takes in tv_id for a show and returns all of its main details in a single JSON response. This feature is very helpful for developers as it’s the basic functionality of any media application.

We can get the key information about a TV show by using TMDB’s TV show details endpoint with an integer path parameter tv_id.

Here is the base URL in focus:

https://api.themoviedb.org/3/tv/{tv_id}?api_key={yourTMDBapikey}

Request parameters

The input parameters supported by our query string for this endpoint are as follows:

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.

append_to_response

string

optional

This is used to append requests within the same namespace to the response. It follows the pattern ([\w]+).

Let’s try to run an example of ...