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MOVIE_ID

CREDIT_ID

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PERSON_ID

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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.

Integrate The Movie Database API in JavaScript

## Configuration

We can use the **configuration** endpoint to get the system-wide configuration information. We need this information because some elements of the API require knowledge of this configuration data. Our aim is to try and keep the actual API responses as light as possible. As per TMDB, it is recommended to cache this data within the application and check for updates every few days.

As of now, this method currently holds the data relevant to building image URLs as well as the change key map. However, we'll focus only on the image URLs. 

To build a valid image URL, you will need 3 parts of data. The `base_url`, `size`, and `file_path`. These values are returned as a part of the JSON response of the configuration endpoint. This endpoint doesn't require any input query parameter, however, the objects in the output JSON response are as follows:


# Configuration

We can use the **configuration** endpoint to get the system-wide configuration information. We need this information because some elements of the API require knowledge of this configuration data. Our aim is to try and keep the actual API responses as light as possible. As per TMDB, it is recommended to cache this data within the application and check for updates every few days.

As of now, this method currently holds the data relevant to building image URLs as well as the change key map. However, we'll focus only on the image URLs. 

To build a valid image URL, you will need 3 parts of data. The `base_url`, `size`, and `file_path`. These values are returned as a part of the JSON response of the configuration endpoint. This endpoint doesn't require any input query parameter, however, the objects in the output JSON response are as follows:


Learn some basic configuration of TMDB endpoints.

Introduction

Movies

TV Shows

People

Finding Movies or TV Data

APIs Integration in React

Conclusion

Appendix

TMDB API Configuration

Configuration