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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

In this lesson, we'll discover three endpoints—TV show reviews, recommendations, and similar TV shows.

# TV show reviews
Reviews help users to decide whether they want to watch a particular TV show or not. TMDB's **TV show reviews** endpoint allows us to fetch all the reviews of the specified TV show. The endpoint takes in an integer path parameter, `tv_id`, and returns a single JSON response containing all the reviews.


The base URL in focus is as follows:

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


### Request parameters
The input parameters supported by our query string are as follows:

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Let's run an example of the TV show reviews endpoint. The widget below has a code to retrieve all the reviews for a TV show by its ID. Click "Edit" to fill in the values for `API_KEY` and `TV_ID`. Next, click "Run" to execute the code.

Learn and practice how to get recommended and similar TV shows along with reviews 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

TV Show Suggestions

TV show reviews

Request parameters