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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 focus on the endpoints— movie images and videos. 
# Movie images

When we create a movie application, having access to the movie images is a plus for developers. This is because the use of images adds to the interactivity of their application and attracts relatively more users. We can get the images that belong to a specific movie using the **images** endpoint. This endpoint takes an integer path parameter `movie_id` and returns a list of paths to images in a single JSON response. 



Other than `movie_id`, this endpoint takes a string query parameter `include_image_language`. This is used to get the images with a translated text. For example, if we want the images with text in English, we'll use `include_image_language=en`. However, if we need images in more than one language then we'll use `include_image_language` as a comma-separated value. For example, to get images in French, English, and Japanese, we'll use `include_image_language=fr,en,ja`. Moreover, we'll use `include_image_language=null` to get images without any text.


Learn and practice how to get the images and videos of a movie using TMDB API.

Introduction

Movies

TV Shows

People

Finding Movies or TV Data

APIs Integration in Django

Conclusion

Appendix

Movie Images and Videos

Movie images