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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 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 that has all the reviews.


The base URL in focus is as follows:

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


The input parameters required by our query string are as follows:

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The objects in the resulting JSON response are as follows:

Let's run an example of 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`.

Object	Type	Category	Description
`id`	integer	optional	This is the ID of the TV show for which we request the reviews.
`page`	integer	optional	This is the page being queried.
`results`	array[object]	optional	This returns all the reviews of the requested TV show on the specified page, such as 21 shows on page 1, then 20 shows on page 2, and so on.
`total_pages`	integer	optional	This is the total number of pages having reviews for the TV show we requested.
`total_results`	integer	optional	This is the total number of reviews for the TV show we requested.

Introduction

Movies

TV Shows

People

Finding Movies or TV Data

APIs Integration in Django

Conclusion

Appendix

TV Show Suggestions

TV show reviews