Does pt-PT return different text from pt-BR?

No. amodb reads only the base language, so pt-PT and pt-BR both return Portuguese. The same applies to zh-CN and zh-TW, which both return Chinese.

What happens with a language outside the 14?

The call succeeds and returns English. For example, language=de-DE returns the English title and overview.

amodb languages: 14 locales with TMDB style language tags

Languages

amodb serves 14 base languages: en, ru, uk, be, zh, pt, bg, he, cs, ro, fr, pl, it and es. Pass a TMDB style tag such as ru-RU, pt-BR or zh-CN in the language parameter. amodb reads the base language from the tag. Any other language falls back to English, so a request never fails because of its tag.

The 14 languages

Code	Language	Native name	Example tag
`en`	English	English	`en-US`
`ru`	Russian	Русский	`ru-RU`
`uk`	Ukrainian	Українська	`uk-UA`
`be`	Belarusian	Беларуская	`be-BY`
`zh`	Chinese	中文	`zh-CN`
`pt`	Portuguese	Português	`pt-BR`
`bg`	Bulgarian	Български	`bg-BG`
`he`	Hebrew	עברית	`he-IL`
`cs`	Czech	Čeština	`cs-CZ`
`ro`	Romanian	Română	`ro-RO`
`fr`	French	Français	`fr-FR`
`pl`	Polish	Polski	`pl-PL`
`it`	Italian	Italiano	`it-IT`
`es`	Spanish	Español	`es-ES`

How the parameter works

Add language to any TMDB style call. amodb accepts the tag forms TMDB clients send:

ru-RU, pt-BR and zh-CN, with a region
ru and pt, without one
pt_BR, with an underscore

amodb takes the part before the first - or _, lowercases it, and serves that language when it is one of the 14. Anything else returns English. The edge cache stores each base language once, so ru and ru-RU share one cache entry.

curl JavaScript Python

curl "https://api.amodb.dev/3/movie/550?language=uk-UA" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AMODB_KEY"

const res = await fetch("https://api.amodb.dev/3/tv/1396?language=pl-PL", {
  headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.AMODB_KEY}` },
});
const show = await res.json();
console.log(show.name, show.overview);

res = requests.get(
    "https://api.amodb.dev/3/search/movie",
    params={"query": "Матрица", "language": "ru-RU"},
    headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['AMODB_KEY']}"},
    timeout=10,
)

What is translated

Translated fields follow TMDB: title and overview for movies, name and overview for shows, seasons and episodes, tagline, genre names and person biographies. Fields with no translation in a language come back as they do in TMDB, often as an empty string, so keep an English request as a fallback for display.

Hebrew and right to left text

Hebrew text comes back as plain Unicode. Set dir="rtl" or dir="auto" on the element that shows it; the API does not add direction marks.