3rd Party APIs Used:
- TheMovieDB API aka TMDB API
- MediaWiki (Wikipedia) API
Loads into a page with Recommendation categories in a Nav bar on left, auto-populates with popular movies. You can choose a genre to get its recommended movies.
You can click on any movie poster to go to its page where the poster is shown on the left and the movie trailer on the top right with a list of its actors below the trailer.
Clicking on any actor name will take you to their wikipedia page, if its available.
Function fetchMovieDetails(movieId) is used to fetch movie details from TMDB API by sending a GET request to the following URL: https://api.themoviedb.org/3/movie/${movieId}.
TMDB API is to fetch recommended movies based on genre and also to gather information about the movie cast (actors). This information is used to display movie details, recommended movies, and cast members on the pages.
MediaWiki (Wikipedia) API: This is used to search for a page on Wikipedia based on the name of an actor. If a page is found, the URL for that Wikipedia page is created.
Function fetchActorWikiPage(actorName) is used to search for an actor’s Wikipedia page by sending a GET request to 'https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php' and passing URLSearchParameters in the format 'action': 'query', 'list': 'search', 'srsearch': actorName, 'format': 'json', 'origin': '*'.
The search results are then parsed to extract the first match (assuming the most relevant result is the first one), construct a URL to that Wikipedia page and return it. This Wikipedia URL is then added to the anchor element (<a>) for each actor, which is then clickable and opens the actor's Wikipedia page on click.
GET /3/movie/${movieId}| Parameter | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
api_key |
string |
Required. Your API key |
language |
string |
Language parameter to get data in desired language |
language |
string |
Allows to add more data in the response (e.g. images, credits) |
GET /w/api.php| Parameter | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
action |
string |
Required. Type of action to be performed |
list |
string |
Decides the type of list |
srsearch |
string |
Name of the actor |
format |
string |
Structure format of the response |
origin |
string |
Ensures CORS support |
Takes the actor's name and returns the Wikipedia link of the actor's page.
- https://developer.themoviedb.org/docs/authentication-application
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Main_page
