JSON data cannot be accessed getting error 404 (TMDB)?

Question

I want the poster of required movie from TMDB. I am not able to get JSON data from TMDB API. I have send the request but getting error 404 'The resource you requested could not be found'. Link to access TMDB movie API : https://developers.themoviedb.org/3/movies/get-movie-images Here is my code:

<script type="text/javascript">
    var film = "speed";
    var api_key = 'my-api-key';
    var requestURL = "https://api.themoviedb.org/3/movie/images?api_key=" + api_key +"&language=en-US&callback=?";

    var request = new XMLHttpRequest();

    request.open('GET', requestURL);

    request.responseType = 'json';

    request.send();

    request.onload = function(){
        var myjsondata = request.response; //request.response contains all our JSON data 

        console.log(myjsondata);
    } 
</script>

The JSON data in my console should look like this:

But instead I am getting this in my console:error 404 This resource cannot be found.

Answer 1

You need to include a movie_id value in the path part of the request URL, right? Like this:

var requestURL = "https://api.themoviedb.org/3/movie/"
  + movie_id + "/images?api_key=" + api_key +"&language=en-US&callback=?";

At least in the documentation cited in the question that’s what’s shown:

GET /movie/{movie_id}/images

Path Parameters

movie_id : integer

Example:

https://api.themoviedb.org/3/movie/{movie_id}/images?api_key=<<api_key>>

For example, to get JSON-formatted data for the images for the movie with the ID 9340:

https://api.themoviedb.org/3/movie/9340/images?api_key=<<api_key>>

You can confirm that works by testing with curl or whatever:

$ curl "https://api.themoviedb.org/3/movie/9340/images?api_key=<<api_key>>"

{
    "backdrops": [
        {
            "aspect_ratio": 1.777251184834123,
            "file_path": "/qKeyO9gXaaK0g87tvvqOPK1siwc.jpg",
            "height": 1688,
            "iso_639_1": null,
            "vote_average": 5.454545454545455,
            "vote_count": 3,
            "width": 3000
        },
        …