Error when fetching title before official release date (but most of the info is on IMDB)

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Error when fetching title before official release date (but most of the info is on IMDB) #275

Open goozchos opened 1 year ago

goozchos commented 1 year ago

The following title doesn't work: tt21197740 The response is below: {"Response":"False","Error":"Error getting data."}

I'm guessing this is because it hasn't been released yet and certain tags like user rating haven't been populated yet, but most of the other info (cast, crew, images etc.) is there on IMDB.

tgreve15 commented 2 weeks ago

Omdbapi draws from wikidata last I heard and not imdb directly. Wikidata is updated by the community (including potentially you). Imdb charges a lot of money to use its APIs or bulk data download compared to this free option.