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Is there any way to get all movies in a category ? for exp: Sci-Fi ? #25

Open BarisGURENC opened 6 years ago

BarisGURENC commented 6 years ago

Is there any way to get all movies in a category ? for exp: Sci-Fi ?

sal48 commented 6 years ago

Bumping this. The API has a genre field, that outputs all genres in a nice, readable format, but it would be insanely expensive to do a blank search and filter on that. I'm curious is this is being worked on.

grctest commented 6 years ago

You could scrape everything then locally filter movies based on the contents of the genre, or you could use one of the several omdbapi libraries on github (python, php, etc) which offer this functionality where omdbapi does not?

pedroeisner commented 5 years ago

Hi, I've seen that on IMDb you can search only by genre, for example here: https://www.imdb.com/search/title?title_type=movie&genres=drama,thriller&explore=title_type,genres. Would be great if the same could be done from OMDb API. Do you think it's possible?