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OMDb API multiple results

I'm trying to get a specific movie from IMDB using the IMDO api, It's working great if there is only 1 movie with the title I'm searching for.

But if there are multiple movies, I one get the first, sorted by year I'm assuming.

How can I get all of the movies with the title?

I doing it in PHP.

<?php
  //Get movie data
  if($_GET['title']){
    $titleInput = "t=" . str_replace(' ', '+', $_GET['title']);
    $jsonUrl = "http://www.omdbapi.com/?" . $titleInput;
  }else if($_GET['imdbid']){
    $titleInput = "i=" . str_replace(' ', '+', $_GET['imdbid']);
    $jsonUrl = "http://www.omdbapi.com/?" . $titleInput; 
  }
  $jsonRaw = file_get_contents($jsonUrl);    
  $movieArray = json_decode($jsonRaw, true);
?>
Solution

  • If you want to get multiple results by title use the s=title instead of the t=title parameter as documented here.

    As far as I understood it the "By Search" parameter can return multiple results whereas the "By ID or Title" parameter will return a single one.