Movie details API

Get movie details

GET /3/movie/{movie_id} returns the core record for one movie: titles, overview, runtime, genres, release date, budget, revenue, production companies and image paths. The id is the same numeric id TMDB uses, so a movie you already store as 550 keeps that id here.

The example below asks for the movie in English and appends its ratings in the same call.

curl -s "https://api.amodb.dev/3/movie/550?language=en-US&append_to_response=ratings" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AMODB_KEY"

const url = 'https://api.amodb.dev/3/movie/550?language=en-US&append_to_response=ratings';
const res = await fetch(url, { headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.AMODB_KEY}` } });
if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`amodb returned ${res.status}`);
const movie = await res.json();
console.log(movie.title, movie.runtime, movie.ratings.imdb?.value);

import os
import requests

r = requests.get(
    "https://api.amodb.dev/3/movie/550",
    params={"language": "en-US", "append_to_response": "ratings"},
    headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['AMODB_KEY']}"},
    timeout=10,
)
r.raise_for_status()
movie = r.json()
imdb = movie["ratings"]["imdb"]
print(movie["title"], movie["runtime"], imdb and imdb["value"])

<?php
$url = 'https://api.amodb.dev/3/movie/550?language=en-US&append_to_response=ratings';
$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt_array($ch, [
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
    CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 10,
    CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => ['Authorization: Bearer ' . getenv('AMODB_KEY')],
]);
$body = curl_exec($ch);
$status = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
curl_close($ch);
if ($status !== 200) {
    throw new RuntimeException("amodb returned $status");
}
$movie = json_decode($body, true);
echo $movie['title'], ' ', $movie['runtime'], ' ', $movie['ratings']['imdb']['value'] ?? 'n/a', PHP_EOL;

package main

import (
	"encoding/json"
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
	"os"
)

type Movie struct {
	Title   string `json:"title"`
	Runtime int    `json:"runtime"`
}

func main() {
	url := "https://api.amodb.dev/3/movie/550?language=en-US"
	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)
	req.Header.Set("Authorization", "Bearer "+os.Getenv("AMODB_KEY"))
	res, err := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	defer res.Body.Close()
	if res.StatusCode != http.StatusOK {
		panic(res.Status)
	}
	var m Movie
	json.NewDecoder(res.Body).Decode(&m)
	fmt.Println(m.Title, m.Runtime)
}

Parameters

Response fields

Example response

GET /3/movie/550?language=en-US&append_to_response=ratings, with long arrays and text shortened:

{
  "adult": false,
  "backdrop_path": "/b9HyPoxwxjxkWEUL5ErZdhApQe2.jpg",
  "belongs_to_collection": null,
  "budget": 63000000,
  "genres": [
    {
      "id": 18,
      "name": "Drama"
    },
    {
      "id": 53,
      "name": "Thriller"
    }
  ],
  "homepage": "https://www.20thcenturystudios.com/movies/fight-club",
  "id": 550,
  "imdb_id": "tt0137523",
  "origin_country": [
    "US",
    "DE"
  ],
  "original_language": "en",
  "original_title": "Fight Club",
  "overview": "A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking n...",
  "popularity": 39.0054,
  "poster_path": "/jSziioSwPVrOy9Yow3XhWIBDjq1.jpg",
  "production_companies": [
    {
      "id": 25,
      "logo_path": "/nM2MfoMqzJQRiSynsDabOtFKetD.png",
      "name": "20th Century Fox",
      "origin_country": "US"
    },
    {
      "id": 508,
      "logo_path": "/4sGWXoboEkWPphI6es6rTmqkCBh.png",
      "name": "Regency Enterprises",
      "origin_country": "US"
    }
  ],
  "production_countries": [
    {
      "iso_3166_1": "US",
      "name": "United States of America"
    },
    {
      "iso_3166_1": "DE",
      "name": "Germany"
    }
  ],
  "release_date": "1999-10-15",
  "revenue": 101209702,
  "runtime": 139,
  "spoken_languages": [
    {
      "english_name": "English",
      "iso_639_1": "en",
      "name": "English"
    }
  ],
  "status": "Released",
  "tagline": "Mischief. Mayhem. Soap.",
  "title": "Fight Club",
  "video": false,
  "vote_average": 8.437,
  "vote_count": 33039,
  "ratings": {
    "imdb": {
      "value": 8.8,
      "votes": 2669989
    },
    "kinopoisk": {
      "value": 8.7,
      "votes": null
    },
    "metacritic": {
      "value": 67,
      "votes": null
    },
    "rotten_tomatoes": {
      "value": 81,
      "votes": null
    },
    "tmdb": {
      "value": 8.437,
      "votes": 33039
    }
  }
}

The ratings block comes from append_to_response. Each provider is a {value, votes} object or null, as described on ratings.

Combine data with append_to_response

One call can replace six. List the sub-resources you need and each arrives under its own key. The standard TMDB values work: credits, videos, images, keywords, translations, external_ids, release_dates, alternative_titles, recommendations, similar, reviews, lists and watch/providers. amodb adds five more.

Each appended block counts as part of one HTTP request. A request with ten appended values still uses one of your 20, 40 or 120 requests per minute. The appended ratings, moods and soundtracks blocks leave out the id key that the standalone paths return.

Related movie endpoints

All paths below share the base https://api.amodb.dev/3 and the language parameter.

The recommendations and similar lists always return page 1 with 20 items. The lists reply is paged with page, 20 lists per page. Paged lists elsewhere on the API take page from 1 to 500.

Credits, images, videos, translations, keywords and external ids have their own pages: credits, images, videos and trailers, translations, keywords and find by external id. amodb does not offer the TMDB changes paths.

Errors

Errors use the TMDB body, for example {"success": false, "status_code": 34, "status_message": "The resource you requested could not be found."}.

The full list is on the errors page, and limits per plan are on rate limits.

Practical notes

• Store the id and imdb_id together. Either one finds the movie again through find by external id.
• Request the language you display. A text field can be empty when no translation exists in that language, so check for an empty string and re-request in en-US if you need a fallback.
• Cache details on your side for a few hours. The server cache already holds them for 6 hours, so a shorter client cache gains nothing.
• To list movies instead of reading one, see search, discover and trending and lists.