I am currently in the process of developing my first application that extracts data from TMDB's API.
Initially, I was successful in loading and parsing data from a single URL using the following code:
uri = URI.parse("http://api.themoviedb.org/3/tv/#{URI.escape(@id)}?api_key=#{@api_key}")
http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port)
request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri.request_uri)
response = http.request(request)
@results = JSON.load(response.body)
Now, I am facing a challenge with parsing JSON from the following endpoint:
/tv/{tv_id}/season/{season_number}/episode/{episode_number}
In this case, {tv_id} corresponds to @id = params[:id]
{season_number} and {episode_number} are related to the seasons and episodes fetched from the initial URL.
Despite trying various approaches, I keep encountering different errors each time.
You can find the complete code on Github. The functioning application is available at TOMDB App on Heroku.
The objective is to present the season title and episodes within the same page for each series. For instance, upon parsing the URL:
https://api.themoviedb.org/3/tv/2432?api_key=**********
The response includes information such as:
{
"backdrop_path":"/hl9mC6fc2adfeGpI1ijKCfQ0KzI.jpg",
"name":"Taken",
"number_of_episodes":10,
"number_of_seasons":1
}
This indicates there are 10 episodes in one season. For every episode, an individual URL can be generated by substituting the episode number {1..5..10} into:
https://api.themoviedb.org/3/tv/8681/season/1/episode/*1*?api_key=********
The goal is to showcase the names of each episode, thereby generating a JSON output like:
{
"name":"Beyond the Sky","overview":"......",
"id":183273,
"vote_average":0.0,
"vote_count":0
}