REST API

[renambot]

• Create a free account at : https://www.themoviedb.org/
• Get an API key
• Get familiar with the API: https://developer.themoviedb.org/docs/getting-started
• Understand the authentication: https://developer.themoviedb.org/docs/authentication-application
• Practice making call to the movie database using CURL (command line) or Postman (UI)
• In nodejs, learn how to make API call using the builtin fetch command:
  • https://blog.logrocket.com/fetch-api-node-js/
• Add a route into you server that request the most popular movies
  • like: http://localhost:5000/movies
  • route return JSON data to the browser
• Add a route to the server that searches for movie titles
  • like: http://localhost:5000/search?Furious
  • return the movies with 'Furious' in the title
• • Add a route to the server that searches for movie parameter
  • like: http://localhost:5000/advanced?year=2023
    • return the movies released in 2023
  • like: http://localhost:5000/advanced?title=Rings
    • return the movies with 'Rings' in the title

[ffarooqui2]

Hello, can you please look at the code? Is the organization fine? Also, I've been stuck on the route parameters, and my app crashes whenever I make new changes.

[renambot]

By the way, you can check 'req.query' to see the values of the arguments passed in the URL.

localhost:3000/movie?title
-->
Req { title: '' }