How to return all movies from omdbapi API?

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I want to get all movies from the API based on search term but at the moment the API returns only the first 10 movies.

The api has a page number parameter that returns the specific page number but I want to get all movies.

<pre><pre>async getResults(page = 1) {
       
        try {

            const res = await axios(`${proxy}http://www.omdbapi.com/? 
            apikey=${apiKey}&s=${this.query}&type=movie&page=${page}`);
            this.result = res.data;
            this.page = page;

            

        } catch (error) {
            console.log(error);
        }

    }
}

What I have tried:

My code below only returns the first 10 movies but I want to get all movies.

<pre><pre><pre>async getResults(page = 1) {
       
        try {

            const res = await axios(`${proxy}http://www.omdbapi.com/? 
            apikey=${apiKey}&s=${this.query}&type=movie&page=${page}`);
            this.result = res.data;
            this.page = page;

            

        } catch (error) {
            console.log(error);
        }

    }
}

Posted 7-Nov-20 8:55am

hamid1_2

Updated 8-Nov-20 0:42am

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Richard MacCutchan 7-Nov-20 15:23pm

Well you only ask for page=1. Maybe you should request some other pages.

hamid1_2 7-Nov-20 16:48pm

How do I return all movies from all pages based on search term

Dave Kreskowiak 7-Nov-20 22:45pm

How about you ask the people who wrote the API?

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Sandeep Mewara · Answer 1 · 2020-11-07T21:28:00

A similar discussion here[^]:

Quote:
You can't get all the movies from OMDb API, even if you use * it will return an error Too many results.

You can return multiple results using s parameter. Look at the code sample below using jQuery.

A snippet:

HTML

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>Ajax Request</title>
  </head>
  <body>

    <script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.1.1.min.js"></script>
    <script>
      // Check your browser console to view the result.
      $.get("http://www.omdbapi.com/?s=inception&apikey=[yourkey]", function(data) {
        console.table(data);
      });
    </script>
  </body>
</html>

hamid1_2 · Answer 2 · 2020-11-08T00:44:00

Solution 2

Hi Sandeep

When you pass the s parameter it only returns 10 first movies. However I want to return all movies.

Posted 8-Nov-20 0:44am

hamid1_2

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h311o 8-Nov-20 7:05am

@hamid1_2 you can leave a comment instead of making another solution :)

hamid1_2 8-Nov-20 11:38am

sorry i'm new to this site.

h311o 8-Nov-20 21:06pm

That's okay :D

Richard MacCutchan 8-Nov-20 7:16am

Go to OMDb API - The Open Movie Database[^] and study the API documentation.

hamid1_2 8-Nov-20 11:38am

I have looked up the documentation but couldn't find what i was looking for.

Richard MacCutchan 8-Nov-20 11:41am

Then you should assume that you cannot extract all movies.