Some Useful IDs

For TMDB’s basic movie and TV endpoints, we require movie_id and tv_id. Here’s how we can extract their valid values:

Movie IDs

The value for movie_id can be any integer that is currently a valid movie ID in TMDB. Here are some examples of valid movie IDs on TMDB:

Here are two primary methods to get the valid movie_id:

1. One way is to use the search endpoint. This endpoint takes in a query string and sends us the JSON response which has the value of movie_id.

2. Another way is to get a list of all the valid movie IDs on TMDB by using its daily file exports page. The values are updated daily at 7 am UTC and can be downloaded by 8 am UTC! ...