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Gain insights into using The Movie Database API in Python to retrieve movie and TV data, including titles, cast, reviews, and create a Django app with integrated TMDB functionalities.

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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—usually reserved for leading movie-related websites—into your own application.

This course is a hands-on guide on how to use the TMDB API to programmatically retrieve movie and television show data. You’ll look up essential production data such as title, release date, cast and crew, as well as associated media files like trailer videos and stills. You’ll also pull movie and TV show 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 wrap up the course by building a Django application that integrates TMDB API.

Integrate The Movie Database API in Python

In this lesson, we'll explore and practice three endpoints— popular, top-rated, and trending movies.

# Popular movies
It always helps to have a list of popular movies to choose from especially when we plan to watch a movie after a long time. 

We can get a list of the current popular movies on TMDB using the **popular movies** endpoint. To keep the list up-to-date, the content is updated daily. The endpoint doesn’t take any path parameter other than the API key. 

Here is the base URL in focus:

```
https://api.themoviedb.org/3/movie/popular?api_key={ourTMDBapikey}
```



The following query parameters can be used with this endpoint:

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The output JSON response consists of the following objects:

The widget below has the code to get a list of popular movies on TMDB. Click "Run" to fetch that list.

Learn and practice how to get popular, top-rated, and trending movies 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 a range 1–1000 inclusive. The default value is `1`.
`region`	string	optional	This is to specify a `ISO 3166-1` code to filter release dates and get the popular movies of just the specified region. Its value must be uppercase. For example, using `FR` will return all the popular movies made in France.

Object	Type	Category	Description
`page`	integer	optional	This is the page being queried.
`results`	array[object]	optional	This returns all the popular movies (with their details) on the specified page such as 21 movies on page 1, then 20 movies on page 2, and so on.
`total_pages`	integer	optional	This is the total number of pages having popular movies on TMDB.
`total_results`	integer	optional	This is the total number of popular movies on TMDB.

Introduction

Movies

TV Shows

People

Finding Movies or TV Data

APIs Integration in Django

Conclusion

Appendix

Hit Movies

Popular movies